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The Thing She Said at the Crossing
A level crossing on a single-track branch line in the English Midlands has a fixed ritual in it.
- ~149 min (estimated)
- 32848 words
- 74 scenes
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
54 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Every time Imogen Harrow, 45, drives over it, she says the number of seconds the gates are down, out loud, in the car, to her husband, who does not need to hear it and has never once told her to stop. The crossing keeper put the barriers down across her at 23:41 on 2 September 2015 because a train was already due and she was already committed to the tracks, and she was driving, and a man called Martyn Bolton, 34, was on the up-side footway with a phone to his ear. He was struck by the Class 172 at 23:42:26. He had used the forty-seven seconds he had afterwards on a 999 call about her. The sentence she began, into a telephone that stayed connected for two hours and fifty-one minutes, at the up-side stop line, with the crossing locked and the barriers down and the crossing keeper at her window, is the sentence this book is about. It is still unfinished. She has driven past the same junctio
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- a woman who has not told one person in eleven years, and a man who has not asked one question in eleven years
- grief, prolonged, in a house with an Aga and a gravel drive
- a hard moral choice with no option that costs nothing
Cast
- I Imogen Harrow protagonist no portrait yet
- M Mark Harrow the harm, and the person she wants no portrait yet
- D Denzil Rooke the only witness no portrait yet
- M Marie Rooke the woman who was inside with the kettle on no portrait yet
- L Lucy Annet the review no portrait yet
- G Gavin Orrell the disclosure no portrait yet
- P Priya Raghunath the referral no portrait yet
- M Mark Ellington the train driver no portrait yet
- P Pauline Nagle the eight cameras no portrait yet