Now a six-part TV series starring Natalie Dormer, from Amazon PrimeA 50th-anniversary edition of the landmark novel about three “gone girls” that inspired the acclaimed 1975 film, featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed 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. … 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. . . .
Mysterious and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. A beguiling landmark of Australian literature, it stands with Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of intrigue.
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I loved this book. I glimpse of life with the impressionists of Paris.
The end was disappointing
Did not like this book. Too drawn out, did’nt finish it. Boring.
I could not finish it. BORING! There are too many great books out there for me to waste my time with this one.
I remember seeing the movie decades ago, so I was interested in reading the book which covers so much more. Very intriguing, atmospheric. A true mystery.
I was fascinated by the movie years ago, and the book helped clarify a few points. Still an intriguing mystery
MEH…for a supposed classsic. You can better spend your reading time
I did not like it. I rarely not finish a book but I stopped 3/4 of the way thru
Didn’t seem to have an ending.
A mystery within an enigma, stays with you after reading.
The setting is the Australian bushland that lies outside of every city, deceptively close to civilisation yet filled with mystery, a rich source of real and fictional dangers. Picnic at Hanging Rock explores the Australian mentality that developed as young people were forced to leave behind the reserve of their English forebears and see that they were all on the same level trying to understand the bush and its secrets.
Had a hard time staying with it.
the author never use the word win 10 or 12 could do instead. It was very unsatisfying a long slow slog with no reward at the end.