Daybreak - Denise Robertson

Brief Description:
Daphne Bedford, a feature journalist for the Herald, is to produce an expose of Daybreak TV - one of the leading breakfast TV programmes. She'll spend a week in their studios, interviewing everybody from the weather girl, the junior researchers, the cleaners and make-up artists, to the producers and presenters of the show, piecing together a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look at exactly what goes on.
Liz Fenton, Features Editor, initially sees this as an opportunity to give the TV station some good press coverage. But it turns out to be more difficult than she'd anticipated to hide the stresses and strains of everyday life in the studios, to keep quiet the rivalries, ego clashes, and sometimes disappointments that take place, not to mention her own troubling affair with a colleague. As Daphne becomes more and more embroiled in life at Daybreak, she finds the thought of the dirt-dishing expose she's been sent to put together more and more unappealing. And when she finds out what the Herald has in store for their much-publicised star guest of the week, it begins to look worse and worse. Can anything be done before the deadline looms?