Cassie McCullagh
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5,416 appearances
33 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2018
last heard 3d ago
Cassie McCullagh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not before a few little shenanigans, Kate, but that's another part of the story we can't spoil.
Who they are.
Look, it's a classic old love triangle, and it plays out right across the novel.
And it's prefigured as many things are in different ways throughout this novel.
Right at the start, where Roy Young, when we meet him, is reading a couple of books.
One is Walter Scott, and the other is La Motte d'Artha, Sir Thomas Mallory.
telling from the fifteenth century of yes, the story of King Arthur and Guinevere and Lancelot.
But there's a great softness about the community and and I particularly liked the way the congregation is described.
When it's singing as a choir, let me just read a little bit of that.
They're in church.
Then the voices began to follow the shapes, seemingly gathering power as they went until they burst into a kind of harmony that requires not only skill but also time, proximity, and affection, a shared life in furrowed fields under the shadows of mountains.
Their voices joined together in a manner so close to blood harmony that it made no difference.
The lyrics rode the echoes around the room, vibrating.
vibrating in Roy's heart until he was sure he couldn't take it much longer.
And people are good and kind a lot of the time.
There are awful people and there are bad characters and absolute tragedies.
But yes, it really does s take you along.
The language does a lot of work.
The sentences are lovely.
He's not afraid of sentimentality and right now I could do with a bit of that in this rotten old world.
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