Charming, talky, wryly funny, poignant and original - Rise and Shine is a love story, yes, but it's a love story that happens ten years into a marriage, when somebody wants out.<br/><br/>This is a story about marriage. It is also a story about life and love and happiness and the absence of happiness and what we need to do to find it again.<br/><br/>It's a story about hope, baking, making music, lemon trees, painting, love, divorce, dogs, the families we create for ourselves, and the heat of the Brisbane sun.<br/><br/>It's a story about August and Noah.<br/><br/>It begins at the end.<br/><br/>Rise and Shine is an utterly surprising delight, a break-up tale that is also a love story; endearing, astringent, talky, wry, wise, uplifting and so original.<br/><br/><b>Praise for RISE AND SHINE</b><br/>'Beautiful and charming' Good Reading<br/>'A love story the colour of sunshine, bittersweet and with a fragrance that haunts a room, about finding joy in tending to something without knowing if it will ever bear fruit. Warm and charming' CLARE FLETCHER<br/>'Assured, tender and observant, Allsopp writes about love and marriage with forensic clarity' JESSICA DETTMANN<br/>'A love story that made me laugh, a comedy that warmed my heart' LAUREN SAMS<br/>'Utterly delightful. Kimberley Allsopp has written a novel about all of us and the glorious mess that is grown-up life' FRANCES WHITING