Title: Picnic at Hanging RockAuthor: Joan Lindsay
Pages: 196
Genre: Mystery
Series: Stand Alone
Synopsis: It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. They never returned.
Haunting, mysterious, and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. A beguiling masterpiece of Australian literature, it stands with Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca as a masterpiece of otherworldly intrigue.
Review: I wasn't sure what to expect from this novel. What I got was pure excellence. This author's descriptions are wonderful. The story reads like a dream. You see the places, you care about the characters, and you wonder what really happened at Hanging Rock.
Even though it remains a mystery even after the book is done, I felt in no way cheated. It was just too darn good of a story. I'll be keeping this book. I'm sure I'll read it again. I'm so glad I read this!
Rating: 10 / 10
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