Your next obsession: Picnic at Hanging Rock

You may have noticed, Twitter has been set alight by the David Lynch-inspired adaptation of Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel Picnic at Hanging Rock. How annoying that – although the series is set to come to our screens at some point this year – it's currently available to the rest of the world on Amazon Prime, but not to us. We won't be able to watch it until it arrives on the BBC.

No reason to be dispirited, though. Starring Game of Thrones's seductive Natalie Dormer, featuring the kind of chic period outfits normally reserved for a big-budget film with Keira Knightley, and the proud owners of plenty of good reviews leaking out of the US, the six-part miniseries is something we'll just have to enjoy looking forward to.

Joan Lindsay's original plot follows three adolescent girls and their governess, who suddenly disappear from their school on a sunny February day in the Australian outback. Long-buried secrets begin to resurface and send tremors through the ground that the Appleyard College staff and students walk on.

The 1975 film by Australian director Peter Weir most concerned itself with the aesthetic of the adaptation, the soft impressionist images and tender look at childhood seen through a veil so as to make the girls emerge from the landscape.

The miniseries is not like the film. In the hands of writers Beatrix Christian and Alice Addison, we're promised an intimate study of character, and the straining tensions formed in the institutions forcefully moulding ambitious young girls into the women society demands they should be.

Picnic at Hanging Rock airs on BBC Two this summer. Date and time: TBD