'“When I began to write seriously, I chose biography as the form that interested me most,” writes Brenda Niall in her introduction to her 2015 biography Mannix. Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock is the latest in her many distinguished examples of the form, and it is enthralling. Lindsay is a beguiling, almost inscrutable, subject. Niall delves forensically into her fabric, body and soul.' (Introduction)