A review by softrosemint
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

3.5

While the narration struggled to keep my attention at several points, there are two things this novel does very well and deserves a good rating for. One is the beautiful and atmospheric prose. The other is the excellent exploration of the consequences of a single event on a community. On that account, the disappearance of the girls and their teacher is less of a cause to the unfolding tragedies and more of a trigger that exposes the underlying issues within Appleyard College; it takes secondary place to what it says about the characters embroiled in it, their relatonship with each other and the Australian continent.