

to Gothic terrors, supernatural wonder, divine mysticism, or the imperialist unconscious. and its focus on the burgeoning sexual curiosity of the girls (and the women). In college I tried to make a satirical remake entitled Lunchtime at Dangling Boulder, but all my actors slept too late." - Lena Dunham, on the film adaptation " Victorian hothouse atmosphere and fetishism.

Every fashion film and NYU undergraduate thesis takes its cues from this lyrical masterpiece. and will continue to haunt readers for generations to come." - The Economist "Pure magic. It's a proto- Virgin Suicides, dreamy and haunting, animated by a sense of slightly sickening erotic mystery." - The New Yorker " cult novel-the first in a thriving genre of 'gone girls'-continues to beguile. "In the seemingly limitless pantheon of gone-girl literature, Picnic at Hanging Rock might take the prize for best setting.
