Cassie McCullagh

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5,048 appearances 31 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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 16 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 3.

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The Bookshelf · New Fiction: Donal Ryan, Emma Cline, Max Easton and Sebastian Barry · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

comings and goings are of this town. voice-verified

And and then there's Rose, who is Grace's younger sister, and she's quite a gorgeous looking woman. voice-verified

Then there is J, a much younger child, voice-verified

Nana and Pop must have been having kids for about, I don't know, forty years. voice-verified

Well, I think thirty years they say. voice-verified

And it's a life with no privacy. voice-verified

He has to share a bedroom with JJ. voice-verified

And because the living is so close, he's kind of also develops this very voice-verified

disturbing for him and for us, uh and slightly unhealthy. voice-verified

a little incestuous lustful fascination with Rose, who is pretty gorgeous, and everyone in the town knows that. voice-verified

We learn very quickly that Rose and Grace fell out, quote, years ago over something complicated and invisible, some ancient strife from the time before he existed. voice-verified

And this life, which is very working class, is a complete contrast to the life he had had with his father, Tomas, or Tomas, who, as you said, Kate uh fled the former Czechoslovakia and the Russians, and clearly is a great intellect. voice-verified

He's introduced Jack to, you know, great books and films, the Czech New Wave, and voice-verified

And so voice-verified

He's been distanced from the father, who seems to have undergone some kind of mental breakdown following the death of his wife, understandably. voice-verified

So without giving away the storyline, life goes on. voice-verified

There's a little bit of a um growing up buildings roman, all told through Jack's eyes, but third person. voice-verified

And he observes these people and gives us little glimpses of their characters and their lives, and also how he understands what's been happening to them. voice-verified

And slowly, through their responses to him, we understand that. voice-verified

his account is not as reliable as we might have thought when we began the book. voice-verified

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