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The Second Chance Is a Room
Hoddensett is a limestone village of three hundred and forty people above Settle in the North Yorkshire Wolds, with one Co-op and post office counter, one pub, a bus to Settle at 07:14 and 13:40, and one belief that everybody there can state in a single sentence and nobody will state twice.
- ~291 min (estimated)
- 64101 words
- 97 scenes
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
47 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Number 11 Cauldron Row is a stone house built in 1847 for a lead miner, with two rooms and a scullery below and two bedrooms and a box room above, and a chimney breast in the front room that the surveyor in 2015 described as solid. The house will give you a room. You get one, per person, per life. You say it in the house, in your own voice, and what you say has to be a room and not a thing. And what the house gives you is not the room you want. It is the room you would have had. Nell Ardery is 39 and a building control officer at Craven District Council in Skipton, which means that for twelve years she has been the woman who decides, under the Building Regulations, whether a thing in a house is a room. She knows the folk rule in the precise form the village states it, because she has been told it four times since she moved to Number 11 in March 2015. Amos Reeder is 42 and a builder worki
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- infantil loss referred to as a height chart and an unfilled line; no child is depicted or described
- coercive and loving marital conflict, including a spouse saying something cruel to win an argument
- emotional manipulation by a well-meaning third party
- public professional humiliation and a career consequence
- a statutory declaration the protagonist knows to be arguable
- explicit sexual content between consenting adults
- body and hair description in an explicit scene
- an ending that withholds resolution on the central question
- no death, no injury, no violence that lands
Cast
- N Nell Ardery protagonist no portrait yet
- A Amos Reeder deuteragonist and the person she wants no portrait yet
- I Ivet Sowerby the rule, from the inside, untested no portrait yet
- H Hettie Akroyd the rule, as procedure no portrait yet