A calm bedtime story for when you wake in the night and can't get back to sleep, set in a little clock shop above the harbour. Señor Tiempo, the village clockmaker, believes he has forgotten his craft: his clocks no longer agree, and one small brass clock stops every afternoon at a quarter past three. Prince Freddie sits beside the workbench and helps him hear what the clocks are really saying. A slow, warm story about letting time move however it needs to tonight.

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 unhurried sleep stories, written to quiet an anxious mind and soften the end of the day. You are not meant to reach the end.

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