Joan Lindsay

NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES STARRING NATALIE DORMER (GAME OF THRONES) AND YAEL STONE (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK). Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling ? St Valentine?s Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return ? An Australian classic, the disappearance of three...

All the episodes from the miniseries based on the novel by Joan Lindsay and set in Victoria, Australia in 1900. On a picnic trip led by their meticulous headmistress, Mrs Appleyard (Natalie Dormer), a group of boarding school girls revel in the opportunity for adventure when they are taken to Hanging Rock. Warned against venturing out to the craggy, overhanging rock, the girls go against their headmistress's wishes and set out to explore the mysterious...