A calm bedtime story for when you can't switch your brain off, about an evening that refuses to end. The light should be turning from gold to copper to grey, but the sun is still hanging above the water, not setting, not moving. Prince Freddie walks the length of the beach to ask her why, sits down on the warm sand, and waits. It turns out she has noticed something on the water she had not looked at properly in years, and the moon and about forty stars are waiting politely for her to finish. A slow, warm story about being allowed to linger, and about the evening arriving anyway.

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 th ...