Wood GreenMichael, an aspiring writer who has recently finished his PhD, takes a job as the secretary to his literary hero, Lucian Clarke, a reclusive novelist with a mysterious cosmopolitan past. Lucian lives in a cottage in a village on a mountain outside Hobart, which gives the book its title, Wood Green. Peopled by an ensemble castthe local publican, the single mother who manages the pub's kitchen, the unhappily married couple that runs the corner store, a