![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFWibsny1gcI7qKPYSKxtaB73wVy7SkLIcE-LrPs6HfkIauzNNjgNzaTNNhjRqyLXBXSenHYOrVNU-xD_mLKbMI3WwvxRFp0eScCuBe8mc5O998mqaciOp4iwyFGjUnOvqLJE_Ueo3Zb7ikmy-LJNriQ5krUsIP5EkSUN09ayi36wXolCaQptYH7ejQ/w127-h200/gilbert.jpeg)
Her recently released second novel, Mischief Acts, is inspired by the past and future of the Great North Wood, which used to cover a large swathe of South London.
At the Guardian Gilbert tagged ten top forests in fiction, including:
Train Dreams by Denis JohnsonRead about another entry on the list.
Robert Grainier lives in a clearing in the woods, and likes to howl with the wolves. Johnson blurs that psychological boundary between human society and the wild life of the forest: domesticated dogs give birth to wolf-like cubs; wolf-boys perform at the local theatre. Grainier’s fateful encounter is a climactic one I won’t spoil, but it perfectly combines his greatest fears and longings in one symbolic entity, and is alive with the strange enchantment of hybrid things.
--Marshal Zeringue