Picnic At Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Read this fantastic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls. 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.
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 *
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 *
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 National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Melbourne and exhibited numerous of her watercolor and oil paintings. On Valentine’s Day 1922 she married Daryl Lindsay in London. When her husband was knighted in 1956 and Joan became Lady Lindsay. The Lindsays travelled together in Europe and the USA, Daryl with his paints and Joan with her typewriter. She contributed articles, reviews and stories to various magazines and newspapers on art. She died in December 1984.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780099577140 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099577143 |
| Title | Picnic At Hanging Rock |
| Author | Joan Lindsay |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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