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David Carter, Professor Emeritus, Australian Literature, The University of Queensland

Joan Lindsay published Picnic at Hanging Rock at 71. Her writing life presents its own mysteries

Joan Lindsay Keith Murdoch Martin Boyd Melbourne Miles Franklin Peter Weir London
Promotional still from Peter Weir's film adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). Janus Films

Brenda Niall’s new book, as its full title announces, is a biographical account of the “hidden life” of novelist Joan Lindsay, best known as the author of Picnic at Hanging Rock.

It adds to Niall’s work on writers and artists including Martin Boyd and the Boyd family, Ethel Turner and Mary Grant Bruce, Georgiana McCrae, and Mary and Elizabeth Durack.

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