May We Feed the King : Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize - Rebecca Perry Pages:272 pages storms and stillness

storms and stillness

but forever present in her heart

In this lyrical and strikingly candid memoir

It is both a love story and a lament

May We Feed the King : Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize - Rebecca Perry Pages:272 pages storms and stillnessAN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST 2026She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. But in the lush private quarters of a medieval palace, she finds herself so transfixed by the reign of an almost forgotten King that the edges of her life begin to blur. He is a reluctant ruler with no hunger for power, rushed to the throne after the untimely deaths of his older brothers. But it isn't long before