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Spring has sprung and summer beckons. Every day now, until June 21, daylight hours will be longer than the last.
In truth, I am more of a night owl than an early bird, but these are the months, when the air is softer, where rising with the lark and getting stuff sorted suddenly appeals.
January resolutions I struggle with, but in spring challenges seem more manageable. My most successful sober-curious friend always has April as her booze-free month.
Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny is a sweetly funny, sharply observed contemporary novel of small-town American life and love.
Having just moved to Boyne City, Michigan, primary school teacher Jane falls hard for the textbook handsome, easy-going Duncan.
Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny is a sweetly funny, sharply observed contemporary novel of small-town American life and love
She is not the first to do so.
It soon becomes apparent that Duncan has slept with almost every other woman in town. Nor does he want to be pinned down: having tried marriage once, he’s forsworn it.
So Jane seeks someone more dependable, but later has to acknowledge: ‘There were two types of people: those you called in the middle of the night and those you didn’t. And Duncan was the kind you called.’
Better still, having roused Duncan in a crisis, he might declare: ‘Now we’re all up, we ought to go see the sunrise at the beach’.
Sunrises at the beach are the preferred start to the day for Nina Riva, the steady-headed heroine of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Malibu Rising.
While she might have been humiliated by her husband Brandon leaving her for tennis star Carrie Soto and she has a party to host that evening, if the conditions are right, then Nina is going surfing.
The beach-body beautiful Nina would not be a magazine cover star in the dystopian Britain depicted in Jasper Fforde’s satire Early Riser.
There, winters are so cold that people fatten up all autumn to hibernate through winter. Unless you are someone like Charlie, who has volunteered to be a ‘winter consul’: he has to be up and vigilant.
Wake early and read one of these.
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