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While Joan Lindsay's haunting Australian classic
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a work of fiction, the story is often considered one of Australia's greatest mysteries.
In 1900, a class of young women from an exclusive private school go on an excursion to the isolated Hanging Rock, deep in the Australian bush. The excursion ends in tragedy when three girls and a teacher mysteriously vanish after climbing the rock. Only one girl returns, with no memory of what has become of the others . . .
Author Biography
Joan Lindsay was born in Melbourne, where she went to school as a
day-girl for a few years at Clyde Girls' Grammar, then situated in East
St Kilda. She knew and loved the Macedon district from early childhood.
In 1922 she married Sir Daryl Lindsay in London. The Lindsays travelled
together in Europe and the USA, Daryl with his paints and Joan with her
typewriter.
Picnic At Hanging Rock (1967) is her
best-remembered book and was filmed by Peter Weir in 1975. Sir Daryl
died in 1976. Joan lived at their country home on the Mornington
Peninsula, Mullberry Hill, Victoria, Australia, until her death in
December 1984.
