Cassie Hamer

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292 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6 Aug

Cassie Hamer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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She follows her journey in terms of
Maggie search for her birth mother and there are periods where Maggie is quite flippant about some of the more awful details about her early life.
Anna is looking at her and she sort of thinks to herself
But this is your story, Maggie, and it's the only one that you're ever going to have.
And so there's a very strong sense of the importance of our personal stories and making sense of them.
That's it.
That's it.
that role of observer is pretty important in the book.
And but Anna in herself, she has her own character arc.
She goes through a really profound trauma.
As we said before, this book really is about the significance of a mother's love.
For Anna, what it's like to lose that love.
And I'm wondering, you know, you did mention this earlier, but if you're okay to talk about it, you lost your mum to breast cancer when you were seventeen, which is really
Such a vulnerable age.
I know you adored her, so
What were you trying to say in this book about the loss of that kind of love and how do you think it personally shaped you?
That's a big question.
Such a gift.
to people to be able to write with emotional honesty.
Because the fact is death comes to all of us, comes to our loved ones at some point in our lives.
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