Cassie McCullagh

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5,048 appearances 31 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2018 last heard 11 Sep

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

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The Bookshelf · New Fiction from Melissa Harrison and Malcolm Knox + Mandy Sayer's Top 3 · 4 Sep 2026 podcast

And the description of fields of barley and rising pollen in the sun and insects. voice-verified

And there was one beautiful young girl at the center of this book and there was a voice-verified

moment in it, Kate. voice-verified

Do you remember where she's leaning up against the horse and just smelling it and feeling its hair and its whiskers and its little breath and oh gosh. voice-verified

It was just an exquisitely sensual description of a world that we were rapidly losing or was disappearing in that time frame. voice-verified

Just exquisite. voice-verified

Well, that is a great question, Tom, because it's central to the novel, as would be suggested by it being the title. voice-verified

It's from a Latin phrase, fides datus mundi, and it means something like, one of the characters says, loyalty to the given world. voice-verified

And it appears on a sundial that is in the garden of an ancient priory. voice-verified

Not as old as you might think, but we find out a bit about that later on. voice-verified

So essentially it's a small town right now. voice-verified

It's called Lower Edom, E-O-D-H-A-M, so Eodom. voice-verified

And it's being modernized and this has been going on for, you know, the last sort of forty, fifty years. voice-verified

But we see the village through the eyes of all the inhabitants. voice-verified

And what you need to know before you start reading it is that you're going to get each inhabitant's view and you won't necessarily return to them. voice-verified

but as it builds up, you get a picture of what's really going on in the village, which is small, and to the land, and importantly, the Whelm River, which is ancient voice-verified

venerable, much voice-verified

And I think maybe Milon the Floss is a sort of in there a bit, uh the George Elliot. voice-verified

And you and I not so long ago read Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road, which is also in that style. voice-verified

But that felt voice-verified

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