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The House With Someone In It
Ilse Baradi is forty-four and runs the duty rota at the Netherfield Health Centre on Barrow Lane, which means that the whole of her working life is the art of writing down who will be where, and at what hour, in advance.
- ~114 min (estimated)
- 25224 words
- 86 scenes
- 13 branch points
- 5 endings
23 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Roisin Mercier is forty-three and has been a district nurse on Ward 12 at Thornfield General for twelve years. They married on the fourth of November 2016, at the register office on Church Street, with eleven people in the room, and they did it for reasons that were entirely practical: Roisin's nursing registration needed a settled address in England, Ilse's mortgage had just been reassessed at a rate neither of them could carry alone, and Ilse's mother needed a live-in carer that year and the money was in Ilse's name. Both reasons were true. Nine years later neither of them has said out loud whether a third reason existed, and neither of them is prepared to be the one who asks. On the sixteenth of March 2026, Roisin's aunt Alma Shorrocks dies in the front room of 47 Ashcombe Road at twenty to seven in the morning, with the person on the night rota sitting beside her. The probate is stra
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- An adult family member unpaid for nine years and unnamed in a will
- A will re-cut on a telephone in nineteen minutes, and the witness clause
- Financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, named in exact money
- The threat and reality of a care assessment and a care plan
- Adult sexual content between spouses, conducted in a house with a third adult in it
- A marriage of practical reasons hiding an unreconciled death from 2015
- A death described from the room it happened in
- A hard moral choice that no option resolves
- A romantic climax that is used as leverage and named as such afterwards
Cast
- I Ilse Baradi Practice manager and viewpoint character no portrait yet
- R Roisin Mercier District nurse, the spouse, and the want no portrait yet
- P Pearline Shorrocks Great-aunt, in the back room since November 2016, unpaid, and the moral centre no portrait yet
- D Deepak Saral Solicitor, Saral & Okonjo, chambers three and four, 118 Kirkgate. Drafted both wills. no portrait yet
- E Enid Nkemelu Volunteer caseworker, Netherfield Law Centre, 34 Silver Street. Twenty-six years in the building, nine of them unpaid. no portrait yet
- N Nandini Prasad Council visiting-team assessor. Carries out a housing suitability check on 47 Ashcombe Road. no portrait yet
- D Denise Tattersall Receptionist at the Netherfield Health Centre. Twenty-two years on the desk. Kept the paper duty list. no portrait yet
- I Ines Okpara Reporter, the Thornfield Courier, 34 Kirkgate. Six thousand two hundred copies, fortnightly. no portrait yet
- A Alma Shorrocks Deceased. Died Saturday 14 March 2026 at 06:40 in the front room of 47 Ashcombe Road. no portrait yet