Prince Freddie: Sleep Stories for Adults

A quiet sleep story for when you can't switch your brain off, built around the stillest habit on the coast. An old fisherman sits alone on a flat rock before dawn every morning, fishing with a mended rod that never catches anything, and Prince Freddie learns that some mornings are not about catching anything at all. Slow, hushed, and companionable: a story to help your own thoughts stop reaching f...

A calm bedtime story for when your mind won't slow down, set in a sleepy village on the Spanish coast. When a seagull named Pedro is summoned before the Coastal Seagull Parliament over a matter he thought was long since settled, Prince Freddie climbs the cliff path to stand as his character witness, and finds the whole grave proceeding gently, sleepily absurd. A playful, unhurried wander made to l...

For the end of a day your nervous system never quite switched off. A slow, calming sleep story to help your body downshift and your shoulders drop, set on a quiet stretch of the Spanish coast after dark. The lighthouse door stands open for the first time. Inside the lantern room, a keeper's notebook records years of faithful watching, and one line, in different ink, holds a quiet answer to why any...

For the anxious mind at night, the one that braces for tomorrow before tomorrow comes. A slow, calming sleep story to help it soften and let go, set in a quiet walled garden on the Spanish coast. In the dark of her walled garden, Señora Benilde has moved her chair to the centre to watch a bud that opens only once every seven years. Midnight is approaching, and the whole garden seems to be holding...

For the ruminating mind at night, the one that keeps turning the same thought over long after the lights are out. A slow, calming sleep story to quiet it, set on a warm stretch of the Spanish coast at the close of the day. Someone has built an enormous sandcastle overnight, precise and perfect. Every hundred years on this stretch of coast, something quiet happens, and tonight Prince Freddie stays...

For the nights your thoughts start racing the moment your head hits the pillow. A slow, calming sleep story to settle an overthinking mind, set on a quiet stretch of the Spanish coast at the close of the day. The moon is not in the sky where it should be. Behind the rocks, in a shallow cove hidden from the main beach, the sea is glowing softly, and Prince Freddie wanders down to see why. Nothing i...

For the nights you wake at 3am and cannot get back to sleep, when your mind starts up before you do. A slow, calming sleep story for a racing mind that will not switch off, set on a warm Spanish shore at the close of the day. When a seahorse in a captain's hat rises on a midnight wave, looking for a kind heart and an excellent nose, Prince Freddie sets out across the moonlit beach to help find the...