In a novel by this author, a character mourning the loss of her colleague Matthew discovers the Victorian magnate Henry Brandling’s diaries while rebuilding an automaton. This author of The Chemistry of Tears wrote a novel inspired by Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son in which a character is punished when Fanny Drabble bakes him a Christmas pudding. In a novel by this author, Reverend Dennis (10[1])Hasset advises an heir who receives a Prince Rupert’s (-5[1])drop and Miriam Chadwick assaults a man with a fear of water after he journeys to Bellingen. This author wrote a novel about the title gambling addicts making a bet to transport (10[1])a (10[1])glass cathedral. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this Australian author of Oscar and Lucinda. ■END■ (0[2])