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All Day Sun
  • Published: 16 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781776951468
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $38.00

All Day Sun

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His song, her name. His fame, her story. A warm, nostalgic debut novel about first love and young ambition, set to a 1990s soundtrack.

It's the summer of '97 and Emmelina is still in River Birch, the college town she once hoped to leave behind. Stuck in a rut and losing her sense of self, everything changes when her ex, the increasingly famous Jake Zefferallo, releases a hit single.
The track? ‘Emmelina’.
Suddenly her name and her failures are everywhere – on the radio, on TV, discussed by regulars at the small café she manages, and in the prying questions of the press. But one journalist seems willing to dig deeper… could this be an opportunity for Emmelina to reclaim her own voice?
For readers of Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy and Rachael Johns' The Other Bridget, All Day Sun is a love letter to the music that does (and doesn't) define us.
  • Published: 16 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781776951468
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

Caroline Slade

Caroline Slade is a lyric-loving writer who lives in Auckland with her British husband and young son. She is an award-winning creative copywriter with 15 years’ experience writing for design — creating voices, names and narratives for boutique brands and global household names. In 2020, she left her role as Director of Words at Design Bridge London to freelance and focus on her first love: storytelling. She has been selected for various creative writing courses including the visiting Iowa Writers' Workshop at Modern Letters (Victoria University of Wellington), and more recently, the Write Your Novel course at Curtis Brown Creative. She holds an honours degree in English Literature and a Master of Arts in English and Film Adaptation.
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