![]() ![]() ![]() The girls, and some of their teachers, are going for a picnic to Hanging Rock, where three of the girls – Miranda, Irma and Marion – along with their governess, Miss McCraw, vanish without trace. ![]() The book opens on the morning of Valentine’s Day, 1900, in the grounds of Appleyard College, a prestigious boarding school for wealthy young women. The mystery of the missing girls remains unsolved in the novel, and as such, refuses to be demystified in reality, creating a cultural touchstone that is imbued with atmosphere and dread. The story’s continuing appeal and disconcerting attraction comes undoubtedly from its melding of fact and fiction, originating in the novel, which is billed as a true story (it isn’t) and then capitalised on by the tourism industry at Hanging Rock itself. ![]()
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