Cassie McCullagh

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5,251 appearances 32 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2018 last heard 6d ago

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

Yeah, and it was a very interesting exercise in a couple of things. voice-verified

It was telling the story of a small town in rural England after World War One, before World War Two. voice-verified

the hint of fascism was reaching this tiny town, but it also was just an old place which still had old great grandparents and the old ways still alive. voice-verified

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

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