Beyond the Rock The Life of Joan Lindsay and the Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock

Beyond the Rock : The Life of Joan Lindsay and the Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock
ISBN: 9781760405625
Publication Date: 1 April 2017

In the winter of 1966, at sixty-nine years of age, Lady Joan Lindsay sat down and wrote a short novel about a group of upper-class schoolgirls from a prestigious ladies college who disappear while on a country picnic in the summer of 1900. The result was Picnic at Hanging Rock, a literary mystery that has endured for half a century.

Beyond the Rock looks at not just the myth of Picnic and how it has become part of Australias culture, but also the story behind it. It examines Joan Lindsays enigmatic life, much of which she kept secret from the world, including her childhood, her complex marriage to Daryl Lindsay of the famous Lindsay family of artists, their enduring love and unconventional bohemian life, and her life at Mulberry Hill, the Lindsays own Arcadia deep in the Victorian countryside.

This is the story of one of Australias most famous novels, and the author who kept its secrets until she died.

About the Author

Janelle McCulloch has been a journalist, editor and author for 20 years, both in Australia and Europe. She has worked as an editor for many home and lifestyle magazines, and has contributed style and design pieces to well-known publications such as Sunday Life, Vogue Living, Elle, Marie Claire, the(melbourne)magazine and Inside Melbourne.