The Country Girls - named Dawn and Heather? (7)
I believe the answer is:
america
'the country' is the definition.
(America is an example)
'dawn and heather?' is the wordplay.
'dawn' becomes 'am' (happens in the morning).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'heather?' becomes 'erica' (I've seen this before).
'am'+'erica'='AMERICA'
'girls named' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for america that I've seen before include "Name of two continents" , "Ira came from the continent" , "Where's Virginia?" , "Camera I found in the continent" , "Camera I take to the continent, oddly" .)