Books like Picnic at Hanging Rock
On St Valentine's Day 1900, a party of girls from Appleyard College goes on a picnic to Hanging Rock in Victoria, and three of them and a teacher vanish.
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The Getting of Wisdom
Laura Rambotham, a clever, awkward girl from the country, is sent to a Melbourne ladies' college and learns to lie in order to fit in.
The Well
Hester Harper, a lonely middle-aged farmer's daughter, takes in Katherine, an orphan girl, and driving home one night they hit something on the road and drop it down the well.
Uncle Silas
After her father's death, young Maud Ruthyn is sent to live as the ward of her uncle Silas, a reclusive man still shadowed by an old scandal, in his decaying house in Derbyshire.
All the Birds, Singing
Jake Whyte, a woman living alone on a sheep farm on an English island, finds her sheep being killed one by one, while her past in Australia closes in.
My Brilliant Career
Sybylla Melvyn, a fiery girl on a struggling farm in the New South Wales bush, wants a life of art and books, and refuses to marry.
Apples Never Fall
Joy Delaney, newly retired from the tennis school she ran with her husband Stan for fifty years, disappears without her phone, and as police start to look at Stan, their four grown children remember the stranger who turned up on their parents' doorstep one night the year before.
Carmilla
Laura lives with her father in a lonely castle in Styria until a carriage accident leaves a beautiful girl in their care, and the guest's languid affection arrives with a sickness that spreads through the countryside.
The White Earth
After his father's death, eight-year-old William goes to live with his great-uncle John on what is left of a great Queensland station, which the old man is obsessed with keeping from native title claims.
Shallows
In Angelus, a West Australian whaling town in its last season, Queenie Cookson joins the protesters against the whalers, while her husband Cleve reads the journals of her great-grandfather.
Drowning Ruth
In 1919 Amanda Starkey leaves her nursing job in Milwaukee for the family farm on a Wisconsin lake, and after her sister drowns there one winter night, she raises her niece, Ruth, under a cloud of secrets.
The Séance
A young woman who once staged seances to console her grieving mother inherits Wraxford Hall, a decaying Suffolk mansion where a family vanished years before, along with a bundle of papers about what happened there.
A Fringe of Leaves
In 1836, Ellen Roxburgh, a Cornish farm girl married into the English gentry, is shipwrecked off the Queensland coast and taken in by an Aboriginal tribe.