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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay
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Description for Picnic at Hanging Rock
paperback. It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148.
NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES - STARRING NATALIE DORMER It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock. Further, higher, till at last they disappeared. They never returned. Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction ... Read more
NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES - STARRING NATALIE DORMER It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock. Further, higher, till at last they disappeared. They never returned. Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099577140
SKU
9780099577140
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Joan Lindsay
Joan Lindsay was born in Melbourne, where she went to school as a day-girl for a few years at Clyde Girls Grammar, then situated in East St Kilda. Appleyard College, the setting oh her most famous novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, was to some extent based on Clyde Girls' Grammar School. From 1916 to 1919, Joan studied painting at the ... Read more
Reviews for Picnic at Hanging Rock
This deliciously horrific Australian thriller, set in 1900, could be seen as an anti-picnic cautionary tale.
Observer
Written in a beautifully haunting style that drew me in.
Esther McKay
Sun Herald (Australia)
A sinister tale...laced with touches of other-worldliness
Guardian
Observer
Written in a beautifully haunting style that drew me in.
Esther McKay
Sun Herald (Australia)
A sinister tale...laced with touches of other-worldliness
Guardian