Life might be telling Sunday Reilly she's past her use-by date.
But she's not planning to go quietly.
'It's two months on a Greek island,' I said, 'working holiday, I've got the next draft of my novel to finish.'
'The kids didn't mention anything,' he said.
'That's because they don't know yet,' I said.
Neither did I till that moment.
Cue me realising that this might just be the worst decision I've ever made.
You don't know me very well yet, but believe me, that's a very high bar.
Sunday Reilly has been many things. An author. A mother. A wife. A daughter. A friend. A lover. But that's all about to change. Because, whether she likes it or not, Sunday is stuck on a hormonal steam train that's smashed through everything she thought she knew about herself. And she can't find the emergency brake.
This is Sunday's story as she upends her life and takes off for the Greek islands on a whim in search of adventure and romance. She figures her life is halfway done anyway, so what has she got to lose?
Nothing goes to plan, which for Sunday has become par for the course. What was meant to be a retreat to work on her new novel becomes something else altogether as she pursues creative and romantic inspiration in one of the most beautiful corners of the planet.
As she barely makes it through a string of riotously funny near disasters, Sunday picks up the pieces and learns to embrace a new kind of freedom. A journey that was meant to be a distraction from truths she would rather forget becomes an opportunity for transformation as she embarks on a new phase of life.
What follows is a funny, sharp, and deeply relatable journey of reinvention, as Sunday navigates chaos, freedom, and the uncomfortable truth of who she really is. Set against the sun-drenched backdrop of the Greek islands, this is a story about midlife, self-discovery, and the courage it takes to start again, no matter how messy, inconvenient, or overdue it might be.
SUNDAY REILLY IS ALL OUT OF FUCKS TO GIVE is funny, outrageous, angry, and heartbreaking, because life for women of a certain age is all those things. It is an uplifting and tender coming-of-age story for the middle-agers about the search for a new chapter in life full of love, meaning, and purpose after all those things have been stripped away.
Meaghan Wilson Anastasios is a reformed archaeologist, historian, university lecturer, and art auctioneer with a PhD in art history and cultural economics (yes, really) who has segued her chequered past into a career as an author and screenwriter. With highlights including exploring a Turkish ghost town with Russell Crowe, and making Sam Neill eat walrus meat, she hasn't regretted her career change. Meaghan's books include the best-selling adaptation of Russell Crowe's directorial debut, The Water Diviner; her novels, The Honourable Thief and The Emerald Tablet; and the bestselling non-fiction book, The Pacific: In the Footsteps of Captain Cook. Meaghan's latest novel, Sunday Reilly is All Out of F*cks to Give, is a funny, sweary holiday read about a woman of a certain age who upends her life and heads off to the Greek Islands. It's a departure for Meaghan because she's also all out of f*cks to give. Meaghan lives in Melbourne with her screenwriter husband, putting paid to the conventional wisdom that creative couples are a recipe for disaster. With two children who look to be joining them on the professional creative rollercoaster, plus a dog and three cats including the famous Aurora, life in Meaghan's household is never dull.
