[1] The novel follows Gordon Meadows, a middle-aged history teacher whose married life unravels when he has an affair with a friend.

Morning All Day was first published in hardback by Jonathan Cape in 1997.

Vintage Books published a paperback edition in 1998.

[2] Ong Sor Fern of The Straits Times described Morning All Day as “late 30-something Breakfast Club” and praised Paling's “knack for bringing his characters to life”.

[3] In a positive review for The Independent, Christopher Hawtree wrote that “Time and again, Paling touches off a phrase which emphasises the novel's jagged world-view, a rawness that springs from the shifting points of view of his episodic structure.” He added that the novel “forms something distinct from its parochial components”.