Picnic At Hanging Rock: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee Read Pick - Softcover

Lindsay Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099577143 ISBN 13: 9780099577140

Verlag: Random House UK, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock., Further, higher, till at last they disappeared. They never returned. Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction the reader must decide for themselves.

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

"This deliciously horrific Australian thriller, set in 1900, could be seen as an anti-picnic cautionary tale." (Observer)

"Written in a beautifully haunting style that drew me in." (Esther McKay Sun Herald (Australia))

"A sinister tale...laced with touches of other-worldliness" (Guardian)

Reseña del editor:

Read this fantastic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls.

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred.

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 Hanging Rock. Further, higher, till at last they disappeared.

They never returned.

Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction the reader must decide for themselves.

NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES - STARRING NATALIE DORMER

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Random House UK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099577143
• ISBN 13: 9780099577140
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192