num_pages: 58
description: Joan Lindsay's best-selling novel Picnic at Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period drawn with loving nostalgia. The final chapter of the novel was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged to know the solution. Published now for the first time, the missing chapter reveals what did happen to the schoolgirls who vanished from the Rock after a St Valentine's Day picnic in 1900.
language: English
title: The Secret of Hanging Rock
titlecomplete: The Secret of Hanging Rock
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Mystery, Australia, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 562
publisher: Angus & Robertson