Joan Lindsay

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Joan Lindsay


Born
in St. Kilda, Australia
November 16, 1896

Died
December 23, 1984

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Joan Lindsay, Lady Lindsay was an Australian author, best known for her "ambiguous and intriguing" novel Picnic at Hanging Rock. ...more

Average rating: 3.65 · 33,704 ratings · 4,226 reviews · 11 distinct worksSimilar authors
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Han...

3.66 avg rating — 32,594 ratings — published 1967 — 113 editions
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The Secret of Hanging Rock ...

3.24 avg rating — 913 ratings — published 1987 — 15 editions
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Picnic at Hanging Rock

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3.66 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions
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Time Without Clocks

3.71 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1962 — 8 editions
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The Secret of Hanging Rock:...

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Through darkest Pondelayo: ...

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Syd Sixpence (Puffin Story ...

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The Story of the Red Cross

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Facts soft and hard [On the...

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Quotes by Joan Lindsay  (?)
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“Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.”
Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

“Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.”
Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

“Nobody can be held responsible for the pranks of destiny.”
Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

Polls

What book would you like to read for our October 2025 Group Read? The theme is Superstition.

Weyward by Emilia Hart
Historical Fiction
 
  16 votes 24.2%

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Mystery, Books About Books
 
  14 votes 21.2%

The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
Historical Fiction
 
  7 votes 10.6%

 
  7 votes 10.6%

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Historical Fiction
 
  7 votes 10.6%

Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid
Historical Fiction
 
  6 votes 9.1%

 
  5 votes 7.6%

 
  3 votes 4.5%

Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins
Magical Realism, Literary Fiction
 
  1 vote 1.5%

66 total votes
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