WORDS ROXY BOURDILLON
PHOTOS BBC/FREMANTLE MEDIA/NARELLE PORTANIER
There’s an ongoing stereotype that all-girls schools are breeding grounds for covert snogging sessions, that when students aren’t swotting up, they’re stroking each other’s knees under the maths desk and grazing up against one another in the stationery cupboard. Well, in my case, that cliché turned out to be 100% accurate; and in dreamy new period drama, Picnic At Hanging Rock, there are sapphic schoolgirls, on the cusp of womanhood, and each other, in abundance.