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“This is the masterpiece of my adopted country, Australia. It’s set at a boarding school for girls – a very proper, very English boarding school of the kind that you only see in Australia, where people try almost too hard to become English. It’s about a school excursion. The girls go and have a picnic at a local geological formation called Hanging Rock, which actually exists. A few of the girls go climbing up the rock, and they never return.” Read more...
Lev Grossman, Novelist
