Perry: May we feed the king

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 20026 & Winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2026. She 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 …