It’s not a book, it’s a song.

[Rinkydinkydoodle]

But I reckon there’s a few people on here who can find anything from the most scrappy clue.

This was a song that Terry Wogan used to play on his morning show, probably going back about eighteen years or so. Female singer who sounded a lot like one of the Abba girls - one of the lyrics was ‘I’m going to sleep all day, hey-yey, gonna sleep the day away.’

I’ve googled it intermittently but never found it from that.

Thanks in advance. X

Bumping because I love a mystery, had a look on lyrics.com but can't see anything close, hope someone can find it for you!

hahaha yeah me too, @Luckingfovely and I’m always amazed what people on here can identify from a vague single line synopsis. It was a lovely haunting song that really struck a chord with me at the time (first bad breakup 🥲) and I‘ve been singing that one phrase inwardly for years whenever I read anything about broken-hearted people staying asleep so they don’t have to face the day. Never occurred to me to ask Mumsnet until tonight, I’d really love to hear it again, fingers crossed!

x

It's not I Go To Sleep by The Pretenders is it? It doesn't have the line you remember, but I can imagine it being a Terry Wogan mainstay!

Or I Don't Want To Wake Up Today by Heather Masse?

I hope you find it. My suggestions are Here With Me (Dido), or something by Evanescence. There's a Jason Mraz song with lines about sleeping all day from 2003, but he's a man and that song is cheery not haunting.

It's by Charlie Dore: www.charliedore.com/SleepAllDay.html (and it's lovely)

Amazing. Thank you @CrossPurposes I love it, feeling instantly transported back to my yoof 😂And thanks to the other posters, couple of belters in there too.

I thought this was going to be about someone not knowing that Wuthering Heights is a book and not just a Kate Bush song!

I'm not so hot on the book hunts so I was pleased with this one!