Dr. Maddy Pelling
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671 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 5 May
Dr. Maddy Pelling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And also, there's something about her.
She moves in this very elegant way.
They describe her as being very sort of cultivated and elegant.
She's not someone of the lower ranks, they claim.
That's how they see her.
She's more delicate than that.
She's more refined than that in their eyes.
Yeah.
And they see a little bit of a opportunity here because she's something of an exotic mystery.
And so they're like, she could bolster our standing in this community.
Yes.
How can I improve my own situation?
And so they take her in.
not out of the charity of you know sort of goodness but because they see that this is an opportunity and one of the first things that they do in the following days is they take her down to the ports of bristol and they sort of parade her up and down and they ask people of different nationalities coming off ships what language is she speaking scientific and yeah exactly a really good process way of doing this and you know everyone's like i don't know i don't know i don't know i've just come in from south america she's not speaking a language from there she's
I've come in from the Caribbean.
She's not speaking any kind of language that I've encountered there, blah, blah.
And then we get a Portuguese sailor.
And this is one of the most fascinating moments in this.
And throughout the book, and particularly in this story, I try to get the readers to pay attention to who is the liar in this story.
Because we have the woman at the centre of the story, but everyone here has some kind of skin in the game, some money to make, some advantage to have.
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