Juicy

Juicy is the story of what happens when life unravels, and a love letter to those who have had to start all over again.

'Listen. You are the back-up plan. You will always have yourself, no matter what.'

At 33, Sheree Joseph stood in the ruins of the life she thought she'd have: no partner, no children, no neat timeline. Instead, a pandemic, profound grief and the unsettling realisation that everything she'd been told to want – marriage, motherhood, security – might not arrive. Or, if it did, that it wouldn't look anything like she'd imagined.

Set against the backdrop of a world in crisis, Juicy is a memoir of heartbreak, healing and rewriting the narrative. In the face of grief, failed fertility treatments, fractured relationships and a love life that refused to go to plan, Sheree searches for meaning and repair: forging forever friendships, tracing her Lebanese-Australian roots, journeying through sun-drenched Europe for the trip of a lifetime and returning to Sydney to rebuild among the wreckage of expectations. Through it all, she learns to let go of a life that was never truly hers.

Written with warmth, wit and unflinching honesty, Juicy is a generation-defining memoir for women learning, piece by messy piece, to live lives far richer, deeper, juicier.