Cassie McCullagh
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5,416 appearances
33 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2018
last heard 4d ago
Cassie McCullagh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And her debut novel, Cherry Beach, was published in 2020.
Yeah, everyone was called like sort of ruby and, I don't know, topaz or something.
I can't remember.
But yes, let's turn to this new one, Worry Doll.
And let's start with the structure, which you only find out after you read it, of course.
But it's a story in two halves.
So the first half is through the eyes of a woman called Heloise.
So Heloise is in her late 30s.
She and her partner, Ernesto, have been together forever.
For eight years.
Ernesto is a great name, but it only gets one mention, I think, and then he's Ernie after that, which is a very different name.
They have a cat.
We hear a lot about that cat.
The cat's called Pearl.
Yeah, and she works in a women's refuge where women who are escaping violence or have had some traumatic incident or living with a mental condition live in quite a peaceful, cooperative environment where they have their own rooms and share other facilities like kitchens and laundries and, you know, the living room.
I don't see her as cool.
I mean, that fringe that she has, she cut with some toenail scissors herself in front of the mirror, which is...
I guess a kind of cool, sort of Melbourne punk, I suppose.
But I thought she was a little insecure and on the outer, but relying on Ernesto, as I insist on calling him, as her rock, something that kept her grounded in the real world.
He is of Filipino descent and has a lovely family who's very welcoming and generous and quite loving towards Heloise.
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