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juushikaTitle: The Golden Day
Author: Ursula Dubosarsky
Published: Somerville: Candlewick Press, 2013 (2011)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 160
Total Page Count: 193,920
Text Number: 571
Read Because: mentioned as similar to Picnic at Hanging Rock, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: In Melbourne in 1967, a group of schoolgirls accompany their teacher to a cave on the coastline—and their teacher disappears. This is an atmospheric novella inspired by Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock, almost stylized, certainly an homage: the intrusion of the unknown into Europeanized Australia. Picnic is the more transcendent and successful, and The Golden Day wears its inspirations on its sleeve—but it's delightful, with an authentic point of view, an ending which sidesteps simplicity, and most importantly an evocative, haunted, ambiguous atmosphere. If you liked Picnic, certainly check this out, and don't be put off by the middle grade label which is accurate but not restrictive.
Author: Ursula Dubosarsky
Published: Somerville: Candlewick Press, 2013 (2011)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 160
Total Page Count: 193,920
Text Number: 571
Read Because: mentioned as similar to Picnic at Hanging Rock, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: In Melbourne in 1967, a group of schoolgirls accompany their teacher to a cave on the coastline—and their teacher disappears. This is an atmospheric novella inspired by Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock, almost stylized, certainly an homage: the intrusion of the unknown into Europeanized Australia. Picnic is the more transcendent and successful, and The Golden Day wears its inspirations on its sleeve—but it's delightful, with an authentic point of view, an ending which sidesteps simplicity, and most importantly an evocative, haunted, ambiguous atmosphere. If you liked Picnic, certainly check this out, and don't be put off by the middle grade label which is accurate but not restrictive.
