My name is Nat Davy. Perhaps you’ve heard of me? There was a time when people up and down the land knew my name, though they only ever knew half the story.
The year of 1625, it was, when a single shilling changed my life. That shilling got me taken off to London, where they hid me in a pie, of all things, so I could be given as a gift to the new queen of England.
They called me the queen’s dwarf, but I was more than that. I was her friend, when she had no one else, and later on, when the people of England turned against their king, it was me who saved her life.
When they turned the world upside down, I was there, right at the heart of it, and this is my story.
The Smallest Man by Frances Quinn is published in paperback on 22 July, 2021.
Read Frances’s Historia feature about the background to this book: Henrietta Maria, a forgotten queen?
