'I tried to call her back but her phone is going to voicemail. I am trying to stay as calm as I possibly can ...’
They are all there: the posters of the missing; the frantic relatives scouring the hospitals with photographs in their hands in search of news on loved ones; the wait for bodies, the slow dissipation of hope as time moves on.
The characters are fathers, brothers, sons, and daughters. Trevor Ellery travelled to London yesterday to search for his 21-year-old son, Richard. He has only recently been given the key to life, now he is missing after the bombing.