We are reading Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay.
Joan Lindsay's best-selling novel Picnic at Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period drawn with loving nostalgia.
The final chapter of the novel was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged to know the solution.
Published for the first time in 1987, 3 years after the authors death, the missing chapter reveals what did happen to the schoolgirls who vanished from the Rock after a St Valentine's Day picnic in 1900.
Drop by the library and pick up your copy to read before the meeting.
After you have read the book you may like to read the last chapter available here:
https://carusopascoski.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/secret_hanging_rock.pdf
Think about what the removal of this chapter means for the story, would you have preferred it included in the original text? does it spoil the mystery? Did you guess what happened to the girls before reading this chapter?
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