Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock is the title of a 1967 book by Australian author Joan Lindsay, and the renowned 1975 film adaptation directed by Peter Weir. The book was first published in Australia by Cheshire Publishing.

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1967 - Australian - Joan Lindsay - Peter Weir

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The plot concerns a trip by a party of girls from an exclusive private school, who travel to Hanging Rock in Victoria's Mt Macedon area for a picnic on St Valentine's Day, 1901. The excursion ends in tragedy when three girls and a teacher mysteriously vanish after climbing the rock.

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Hanging Rock - Mt Macedon - St Valentine's Day

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Lindsay wrote the novel at her home Mulberry Hill in Baxter, on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. The original version of the book included a final chapter in which the mystery was resolved, but Lindsay removed it prior to publication, and it was not released until after her death. Chapter Eighteen, as it was known, was not widely discussed until the mid-1980s, but in 1987 was finally published as "The Secret of Hanging Rock" by Angus & Robertson Publishing.

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The original novel was released in paperback by Penguin in 1970, and in 1973 was optioned as a film by film producer Patricia Lovell.

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Optioned - Film producer - Patricia Lovell

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