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Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay

Description: ISBN 0099750619 / Author: Joan Lindsay / Genre: Biography / On St Valentine's day in 1900, a party of Australian schoolgirls set off with ... more

Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay ... two schoolmistresses on a picnic to a place called Hanging Rock. Some were never to return. What began as a pleasant and happy day out ended in terror.

Newest Review: ... horrors and guilt that various members of the school, staff and the witnesses go through. Some of the questions that go ... more

... unanswered are tantalisingly laid before the reader. Why were only two of the party wearing watches, and why did both watches stop during the day? Why was the area they disappeared in, which was small, not disturbed and why were no footprints found? Where was Miss McCraw, the prudish teacher, and why did she set down her book and her kid gloves before she disappeared without a trace? Did she follow the four girls? And more importantly, why was she last seen only wearing her pantaloons - where was her dress?! Even ...more

Price Comparison for Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay

	Lindsay Joan : Picnic at Hanging Rock(Pictorial Edn.) Pages: 204, Paperback, Penguin Books Australia Last Update 25.11.2009 05:47	£ 32.03
	Lady Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock Pages: 67, Paperback, Dramatic Pub Co Last Update 25.11.2009 05:47	£ 11.95

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Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay: Panic at Hanging Rock (1664 words)
by - written on 16/12/05 (Very useful, 1145 readings)
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My fascination with this book started some time ago. Set in Australia, I had no idea of the background to the story until a few years ago when my friend and I went to Mount Macedon one night. While making our way steeply down in the car from the mountain in the pitch black, we came across a silhouette standing at the side of the road. I don't know who was more scared - the kangaroo or us. KM let out a girlie high pitched scream. The reason for this was that my friend had just decided to tell me the tale of what had allegedly happened at Hanging Rock. I think I was a little bit spooked. When I went to Melbourne in March this year, we were again heading for ... Read the complete review

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