Cameron Passmore
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491 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Cameron Passmore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But then, as you said, there's kind of what I thought of as the seven-up element of it as well, where you're skipping through those time periods and getting those specific dates.
And it's interesting because as a reader, you then look at the dates that are playing out and parallel those to events that happened in history too.
So, you know, a couple of years, for example, are 2015 and 2022.
So it does make reference to COVID at the end.
But I think this structure is done so well here because...
You hear a lot of writers talk about kind of playing structure games and giving themselves this sense of like creative pressure through the form that they're trying to adhere to.
And I think that this novel is an example of one that does that really well.
So in a lot of ways, it's not only a joy for a reader, but I think that this is really kind of like a writer's read as well in a lot of ways.
The other structural thing that I think is kind of cool and is worth calling out is that prologue and epilogue that the book uses.
Because it kind of bookends all the storylines that take place within that space.
And I kind of thought of that as being a little bit Shakespearean in the way that it delivers it.
In that it kind of sets the scene and then at the end there's almost this kind of magical reflection that builds on that sliding doors effect.
Which is really, you know, it's kind of a really cool experiment in how to bring these kind of different ways of thinking and forms and genres and structures altogether.
I think that's absolutely the case.
And I will say when it came to reading this book, it was actually a slightly slow read for me because I found I would get through both the Bear and the Julian chapters in a single sitting.
They would fly by.
I would love them.
But then I would get to the Gordon section and I would actually have to take a pause and I would have to psych myself up to come back and read them because in a lot of ways I found them quite upsetting.
I think it wasn't
the kind of heavy-handed use of violence that you see from the character.
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