My final nomination is something I've nominated before-
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. I want to nominate it again because it did well when it was nominated in the lit club (it went to a tie-breaker), because there was a new mini-series adaptation of it in 2018 that could be a point of interest, and because I liked the idea of 'free falling' for this book what with the mysterious disappearances amongst other things.
Gooreads 202 pages, 1967, Australia
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While Joan Lindsay's haunting Australian classic Picnic at Hanging Rock is a work of fiction, the story is often considered one of Australia's greatest mysteries.
In 1900, a class of young women from an exclusive private school go on an excursion to the isolated Hanging Rock, deep in the Australian bush. The excursion ends in tragedy when three girls and a teacher mysteriously vanish after climbing the rock. Only one girl returns, with no memory of what has become of the others...
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