This is the current read and I'm really enjoying it. It's very eerie, how the bush can just swallow up three girls and one of their teachers. As well as trip and bash senseless a young Englishman out looking for the disappeared girls.
The bush is the main character in this book and it sits in marked and obvious contrast to the presence of a mansion which houses a boarding school for young ladies, in addition to a well-to-do township nearby. It is William Ford's 1875 painting entitled At the Hanging Rock which is said have inspired Joan Lindsay's book. Early on in the book, Miranda (one of the girls who disappears) recalls "a picture of people in old-fashioned dresses having a picnic at the Rock". This painting is now housed in the Ian Potter Gallery at Federation Square in Melbourne.
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