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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But what we learn soon enough about her is that she does not have a mother.
She has a very distant father who is a presence but not one on a daily level.
But what we find out is that soon after Heloise was born,
she died.
Now initially we think she died as part of the childbirth process, but later we find it something else.
So this is possibly the source of Heloise's imprisonment in her own mind, her rumination, her psychological blueprint that seems to have been with her for life.
Oh, yeah, and she has endless erotic fantasies about meeting up with Lacey, who is at least 15 years her junior.
So Lacey's 24.
She's kind of a tomboy, if we're still allowed to use that word, like she's a tradie type and Heloise is in her mid-30s and she's desperately attracted to Lacey and she has endless sort of...
Erotic fantasies.
Yeah, I mean, she's really fallen hard.
So we start to sense that perhaps we have an unreliable narrator on our hands, that we're not really anchored in reality.
Although there's plenty to suggest that she's going on with her life and she just has this...
fantasy life where she indulges her desires and fears.
And clearly the loss of the mother is the key story for her, the mother wound that she's suffering.
But what we can say about this book is it's, she's got a beautiful turn of phrase, Laura McPhee Brown.
Let me just read a paragraph here.
This is when they're getting ready to go to dinner at Ernesto's family house.
It is a hot night.
The sky is prematurely dark and murky, full of clouds like smoke.
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