First Friday Book Club | Joan Lindsay by Brenda Niall

In her new book, Joan Lindsay, one of Australia's foremost biographers, Brenda Niall, examines Joan Lindsay’s life, including her attitude to time, with no clocks in her house, and her love of the Australian landscape.

Joan Lindsay was the wife of a member of a famous artistic family, NGV director, Daryl Lindsay. She painted landscapes, wrote plays without success, and she was hostess to such celebrities as Dame Nellie Melba, Laurence Olivier, and Vivien Leigh. However, later in life, she produced a fascinating novel, which continues to perplex and captivate readers. Was this author of Picnic at Hanging Rock as enigmatic as the novel she wrote?

In Joan Lindsay - The Hidden Life of the Woman who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock, Brenda Niall explores these questions and more in an engaging and surprising portrait of a fascinating Australian woman.

Join The Friends for another morning of lively discussion.