Cassie McCullough

Yes, and there's a dead body in the prologue of this.

And on the Sunday morning of the weekend, Mariam's looking out the window of the courtyard and she sees a man who's asleep on the bench.

And it is Frederick...

P. Rees II, who is the son of the President of the United States, Gerald Rees.

And she looks a little more closely and she realises his eyes are open and he's dead.

And, I mean, it's worth noting, and I read the Harvard magazine for alumni.

I read their review of this, and it does point out in there that in Jared Kushner's year in the Red Book, some people did criticise him in the same way that people in this fictional version of this story criticised Frederick Rees.

She's quite instantly recognisable as a character.

She's this academic.

She's had success with her academic work, but also writing this line of popular psychology books.

And she's all about hedonic studies, the study of happiness.

How do you make yourself happy?

And she has this much younger wife.

who was actually one of her students, who is a post-humanist, who's writing all these and reading all these works about, well, basically, you know, the thinking beyond the body.

So they're this totally right-on lesbian couple who...

in a very, I guess, you know, sexually charged but also intellectually feisty relationship.

Well, Binks is, the younger wife is, but Eloise is kind of a bit like, oh, okay, if that's what she wants.

She can do it.

But there, there's this replica of Eloise's head, which Binx is slowly programming with AI so it can actually respond and function in the same way that Eloise would.

Very funny.