The Extra Plate

Months after losing her husband David in a car crash, Rebecca finds herself unable to let go of the small rituals they once shared. Every evening, she sets two places at the kitchen table. She cooks for two. She talks to the empty chair where he used to sit, filling the silence with the ordinary things she never got to say. She tells herself it is grief. She tells herself it will pass. But the evenings have a way of surprising her.
And the table, it turns out, is not quite as empty as she believed. Quietly unsettling and deeply human, The Extra Plate is a story about loneliness, the rituals we build to survive it, and the unexpected things that can answer when we have been grieving long enough, and quietly enough, to be heard.