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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Melbourne
:
Cheshire
,
1967
Z305085
1967
single work
novel
historical fiction
mystery
(taught in 2 units)
'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. 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. ...'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Penguin Random House, 2014).
Turin : La Rosa , 1983
Last amended 29 Sep 2005 13:23:56