Now a six-part TV series featuring Natalie Dormer, from Amazon Prime.

A 50th anniversary edition of the groundbreaking novel about three missing girls that inspired the acclaimed 1975 film, with a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed.

It was a cloudless summer day in 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed that it was just the right day for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the heat of the afternoon sun, pushing through the underbrush into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcrop. Further, higher, until they finally disappeared. They never returned...

Mysterious and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. A captivating masterpiece of Australian literature, it stands alongside Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of intrigue.