We are reading Joan Lindsay's classic Australian novel "Picnic at Hanging Rock". Grab a copy from your library this summer and register for the book club in 2017 by calling David on: 9976 1731
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1967 Australian historical novel by Joan Lindsay. Its plot focuses on a group of female students at an Australian women's college in 1900 who inexplicably vanish at Hanging Rock while on a Valentine's Day picnic. In the aftermath of the disappearance, the narrative also explores the outlying effects it has on the community.
Lindsay wrote the novel over a four-week period at her home Mulberry Hill in Baxter, on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. It was first published in 1967 in Australia by Cheshire Publishing and was released in paperback by Penguin in 1970. The novel sparked critical and public debate due to its ambivalent presentation as a true story, as well as its vague conclusion, and is widely considered to be one of the most important Australian novels of all time. It was adapted into a critically acclaimed film of the same name in 1975 by director Peter Weir, (Wikipedia).
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