A gentle sleep story for when you can't switch your brain off, told on an evening when all the plans fall quietly away. Freddie has a whole expedition prepared, but his human comes home carrying a tired kind of stillness, so he simply stays close: the reading chair with the lamp lit, the front step in the cooled air, one long look at the moonlit beach before turning back inside. Nothing is solved, because nothing needed solving.

Prince Freddie is a small dog in a flat gold crown who lives in a sleepy village on the Spanish coast, where the days are warm, the sea is always close, and nothing is ever in a hurry. These are slow bedtime stories, written to quiet an anxious mind and carry you down into sleep. You are not meant to reach the end.

If this one ends before you do, there is a longer telling. The Settle, Night 12, is the same sto ...