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Grave, earnest, contemplative and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Joan Lindsay
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics), Golden Press, Hill of Content
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780140031492
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First sentence
“EVERYONE agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock-a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling all through breakfast from the loquat trees outside the dining room windows and bees murmuring above the pansies bordering the drive.”
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