Madeline Gray
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549 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Madeline Gray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So they're all coming together in this interesting way where we don't really know what's true, but we're certainly learning about the power of myth-making.
Absolutely.
I mean, again, not to spoil anything, but there are lots of twists and turns in this book and reveals.
And you can see that the author is having a bit of fun.
She's playing with the narrative tropes of the Wild West.
And I think there's one explicit line in the book where someone says, you know, this land was...
empty and then someone says, oh, like, I don't reckon it was.
So there's that, you know, that is kind of the project that she's doing in a much more complex way than what I just said.
Or like an old school, you know, movie where like a silent film where it comes up with little slides between.
That was what I was being reminded of.
Well, it's very cinematic, isn't it?
It is.
I mean, getting back into Maddie's backstory, as a child my father made me watch a lot of old films and I remember watching High Noon again and again with him.
Basically this book is taking High Noon and rearranging it like a puzzle.
Isn't that the name of a Dabla McTiernan book?
Wow, everything's connected.
But yeah, we don't really know what's happening and the kind of fogginess, the atmospheric fogginess of the beginning continues to enshroud the whole book.
And by the end, we think we know what happened, but because of the nature of...
the passages that have come before, it could be trickery.
We do come back to Nina.
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