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Picnic at Hanging Rock

by Joan Lindsay · Hanging Rock series

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 four girls and a teacher mysteriously vanish after climbing the rock, with only one girl returning with no memory of what happened—an atmospheric meditation on the inexplicable and the haunting power of landscape.

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