'For years now I have been getting up by 5am in winter (and I am just as happy at 4am in summer). It suits me. I like the energy, the awareness before the day wakes. The quiet before dawn in winter, the shift from night to day in summer. I get things done. I garden in soft light. It is my best time of day' In Morning, Allan Jenkins shows how getting up earlier even once a week or month can free us to be more imaginative, to maybe read, to walk, to write. He talks to other early risers such as Jamie Oliver and Samuel West, to poets and painters. We hear from a neuroscientist about sleep, a philosopher about dawn, a fisherman about light. Allan wakes early, he listens, he looks. He introduces us to a secret world. This is a celebration of dawn and morning: the best time of day.
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Torn as to whether I like or dislike this book. My general feeling is warm, and I am inspired to try out a very early morning one day soon. But I was also quite bored of a whole year's worth of mostly samey diary entries, and irritated by poor editing in the interviews (“What do you like best about being awake early? - I've already answered this, I think.”)
