The buildings changed. The paperwork improved. The silence remained.
By the 1970s, The Hollows looks very different from the institution it once was.
There are new systems, new records and a growing belief that better processes can prevent the mistakes of the past.
But institutions don't change simply because the language does.
Behind the paperwork are still people - people whose lives can be reduced to reports, decisions and explanations written by somebody else.
The Modern Silence takes The Hollows into a more recognisably modern era, exploring what happens when poor practice and harm can exist alongside policies designed to prevent them.
Because recording something isn't the same as stopping it.
“We keep records now,” she'd told herself on her first morning. “That's how harm ends: you write it down, you don't let it vanish.”
The Hollows is more modern.
That doesn't necessarily make it safer.
Paperback · Available signed directly from Adam.
The Hollows should be read in order. This is Book IV of V.
The buildings changed. The paperwork improved. The silence remained.
By the 1970s, The Hollows looks very different from the institution it once was.
There are new systems, new records and a growing belief that better processes can prevent the mistakes of the past.
But institutions don't change simply because the language does.
Behind the paperwork are still people - people whose lives can be reduced to reports, decisions and explanations written by somebody else.
The Modern Silence takes The Hollows into a more recognisably modern era, exploring what happens when poor practice and harm can exist alongside policies designed to prevent them.
Because recording something isn't the same as stopping it.
“We keep records now,” she'd told herself on her first morning. “That's how harm ends: you write it down, you don't let it vanish.”
The Hollows is more modern.
That doesn't necessarily make it safer.
Paperback · Available signed directly from Adam.
The Hollows should be read in order. This is Book IV of V.
