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The Collector's House
She signed the guarantee at twenty-two and never asked whose money it was.
- ~124 min (estimated)
- 27306 words
- 53 scenes
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
46 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Two rooms, a filing cabinet, a kettle, and a ledger of other people's county court judgments. It buys paper nobody else wants, at eleven pence in the pound, and it collects slowly. Ada Okonjo, 29, draws buildings for a firm whose site closes in April. On the sixteenth of March a letter says her late father's debt has been assigned to Vane & Co and that the sum is eighty-four thousand pounds. There is a signature on the guarantee from the fourteenth of August 2019, and she does not remember the pen, and that is the whole case against her. Elias Vane, 38, owns the debt. He does not send a bailiff and he does not issue a writ. He offers a schedule: eight per cent, five hundred and sixty pounds a month, interest first, capital only if there is any. It is a fair instrument and it never ends. Ada can sign it, or let the county court fee of four thousand two hundred pounds be spent and take her
Content notice6 topics · tap to review
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a parent's death off the page and the paperwork of a funeral and an estate
- a debt bought at eleven pence in the pound, an interest-only schedule, and a county court hearing in prospect
- a bailiff's charge and the threat of goods being taken from a family home
- the sale of a mother's house weighed against keeping a father's name out of the record
- debt, class, and coercion in the terms of an arrangement
Cast
- A Ada Okonjo protagonist no portrait yet
- E Elias Vane love interest no portrait yet
- N Ngozi Okonjo supporting no portrait yet
- R Ruth Vane antagonist-adjacent no portrait yet
- M Mehmet Soyer supporting no portrait yet
- D Dara Quinn supporting no portrait yet
- T Tobias Crake supporting no portrait yet
- P Paul Innes minor no portrait yet
- G Grace Okonjo minor no portrait yet