Night Owls

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So despite portraying a healthy young couple with some good chemistry, Night Owls didn’t do much for me. I admire the honest conversations about sex and the message that you should fight to make your (art) dreams come true, but for the rest this story had little tension, a few easily-solved problems and uninteresting side-characters.

This is Mary McCleod’s experience. She left her role as a fashion buyer, working 9am to 5pm, to start up her own business selling natural soaps, working 11am until 3pm, then again between 8pm and 1am. “When I was going into the office for 9am I would find my mornings would be fairly unproductive and I would tend to stay late to get my ‘good’ work done, so overall I was missing out on other activities in my day,” she says. “I love working to a schedule that suits me better.” It offers fiction and non-fiction books for both adults and children, with a particular focus on wildlife and the natural world.A popular home design blogger I follow talks about what she calls “clutterbody.” It’s what she calls the feeling she gets when she is so overwhelmed by the clutter in her house that her skin starts to crawl and she goes into a panic and mustget rid of some of her stuff. Marie Kondo’s book is the anecdote to clutterbody. She teaches her readers to remove clutter from their lives so they’re surrounded only by objects that make the reader feel calm and have joy, and her calm prose makes her a perfect read for late nights. Just be careful you don’t start cleaning out your cabinets at 2am!

I'm glad for the frank discussions about sex and the message that you are not defined by how many people you've slept with: But this isn’t always well understood. Jessica Batchelor is a medical writer who feels most productive at 11pm in the evening. “I can’t tell anyone when I went to sleep, woke up, showered, ate a meal, or took a nap without being judged,” she says. “I struggle with feelings of guilt and shame.Jane Griffiths, Senior Commissioning Editor said 'Night Owls has cast a spell over the whole Simon & Schuster Children's team. It's totally unique, unforgettably poignant, and we couldn't be more excited to be publishing it.' Rebecca, who lives in the village with fiancé Chris, said: “East Lothian has so much talent. I was taking photographs of all the amazing local entrepreneurs, makers and artisans delivering things; there is so much talent here.”

So if all the scientific evidence supports the idea of flexible schedules aligned with our individual sleeping patterns, why aren’t we there yet? Employers have long been hesitant to allow their employees to work flexibly and remotely, though this attitude has been undermined by the sudden shift to online working that the coronavirus pandemic has required.I didn't like Bex's mum, her actions, excuses or how easily it was all dismissed. In fact both sets of parents were highly unlikeable! As well as a need for greater awareness of the importance of sleep, there are too many myths circulating around it. Among these is the idea that there’s a simple solution to night owls’ struggles: they should cut down on caffeine, practise better sleep hygiene, be more disciplined – and even rely on medication. This non-fiction picture book covers owls’ habitats, birth and development, threats and predators, and diet.