“Book Descriptions: In the winter of 1966, at sixty-nine years of age, Lady Joan Lindsay wrote a novel about a group of schoolgirls from a prestigious ladies’ college who disappear while on a country picnic in the summer of 1900. She called it Picnic at Hanging Rock. The book was an international success, and the mystery is still creating headlines fifty years on.
Beyond the Rock looks at not just the myth of Picnic but also the story behind the novel, and the events that led up to it. It examines Joan Lindsay’s own enigmatic life, her complex marriage to Daryl Lindsay of the famous Lindsay family of artists, their enduring love and unconventional bohemian life, and her life at Mulberry Hill, the Lindsays’ own Arcadia deep in the Victorian countryside.
This is the story of one of Australia’s most famous novels, and the author who kept its secrets until she died. ” DRIVE
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