The Empty Bed

Before the file, before the finding, before the apology, there was a child who should have been heard.

When sixteen-year-old Callum Vale dies, his family is left inside a silence no parent should have to carry. His mother, Helen, his father, Adam, and his younger sister, Niamh, must live through the long year between his death and the opening of the inquest, surrounded by the objects he has left behind: the school shirt on the chair, the weather notebook by the bed, the headphones in the cor...