She’s Not Sorry Ending Explained: The Twists and Turns

Before she even stepped into her divorce support group, Meghan came across a woman waiting outside the venue. Instead of ignoring her, Meghan chose to greet the woman, who then introduced herself as Nat, a supposed classmate from their secondary school days.

Meghan didn’t immediately recognise her, but later became drawn into the bond they quickly re-established. As their friendship deepened, Meghan shared personal secrets, particularly about how Ben, her ex-husband, wasn’t Sienna’s biological father.

She had slept with someone else during a rough patch in their relationship just before their wedding. Meghan opened up about this after spotting what looked like a bruise on Nat’s face, possibly from physical abuse, hoping Nat would also feel safe to share.

But things took a strange turn when Nat suddenly stopped responding. When Meghan showed up at her workplace to check on her, she got shocking news—Nat didn’t work there. Towards the end of the first part and the start of the second (which takes place nearly three-quarters into the book), a major truth is revealed.

The real Nat, Meghan’s old classmate, had passed away in a tragic incident shortly after their school days. The woman pretending to be Nat had been Caitlyn all along. At this point, the story shows that Caitlyn was wearing Meghan’s wedding ring and deliberately provoking her, leading to Meghan pushing her.

The story then links the ICU scenes, where Caitlyn was a patient, back to this moment. So, the events surrounding Caitlyn in the hospital come after the bridge incident, and Meghan is exposed as the one who pushed her, which caused her coma. Meghan had recognised the woman in the ICU from the beginning.

From Part 2 onwards, the rest of the book sticks with the present-day events, after Caitlyn’s fall. As Caitlyn starts coming out of her coma, Meghan realises that she remembers everything. Caitlyn will expose her once she can speak. Meghan then makes a deadly decision.

She gives Caitlyn the wrong medication on purpose, with full awareness of the consequences. She disables the alarm systems, injects Caitlyn with a higher-than-needed dose of insulin meant for someone else, waits for her to die, then calls for help.

Other ICU staff rush in, and Meghan claims it was a mistake. By accepting the blame right away, she positions herself as someone who made an honest error, possibly to preserve her career. She gets placed on administrative leave while the hospital investigates.

Meghan keeps what happened from her daughter Sienna. When Ben, her ex-husband, visits that evening, she only admits to losing a patient, leaving out the truth. Later on, Meghan learns Ben had been dating Caitlyn for several months, a relationship she never knew about.

Meanwhile, Meghan also discovers that Sienna was behind the threatening notes she’d been receiving. Sienna felt betrayed after Caitlyn revealed that Ben wasn’t her biological father. However, Sienna had no idea Caitlyn and Nat were the same person.

As for the vague warnings about assaults on women that seemed unconnected to the main plot, Meghan soon receives a disturbing call. It comes from the wife of her colleague Luke, who also works at the ICU. The woman tells Meghan that Luke is the one responsible for the attacks.

She even found photos of Meghan and Sienna in his possession. Meghan immediately concludes that Luke has taken Sienna and goes in search of her. The epilogue reveals that Meghan was cleared following the internal investigation.

The hospital accepted her explanation and allowed her to retain her license with some restrictions. Later, Ben visits again. Though he hints at wanting to reconcile, Meghan declines. He returns the engagement ring Caitlyn had stolen, and Meghan senses that he might have pieced together parts of what happened.

She fears this ring might give him power over her.

What Stood Out to Me about How the Story Ended?

This time around, the twists felt more logically placed compared to many of Kubica’s other stories. From the moment Nat appeared, it was clear to me she wasn’t who she claimed to be. It puzzled me that Meghan fell for the act so easily, especially given that she and Nat were supposedly close back in school.

Yes, twenty years had passed, but you’d still expect her to notice the differences. She even comments repeatedly about how young “Nat” looks. Considering Caitlyn was much younger, this should’ve raised red flags. Her fake Facebook account also felt poorly constructed, which made the lie more obvious.

Yet many of my friends didn’t suspect a thing, so I have to admit the twist worked for them. There’s always something compelling about a character pretending to be someone else. Another highlight was the twist involving Nat’s true identity and how the story alternated between two different timelines.

That storytelling method helped the pieces fall into place. At first, I thought the person in the hospital might be Sienna, but it later became obvious that it was Nat—Caitlyn in disguise. That plot point brought clarity to both timelines. Kubica deserves credit for how smoothly those events were linked.

Many of the readers I spoke with never suspected the time-jumping or that Meghan knew the woman in the hospital. So, that part of the twist was effective for them. What made Meghan stand out was the moment she pushed Caitlyn off the bridge, and then later went as far as ending her life while pretending it was an accident.

That was a bold change. Early signs of Meghan’s unstable behaviour were visible, especially in how invested she became in both Caitlyn’s and Nat’s affairs. If someone didn’t already suspect Meghan knew who Caitlyn was, her digging into Caitlyn’s life should have been a strong clue.

Once it became clear she didn’t want Caitlyn to recover, it also made sense that someone else would need to take the blame for the incident on the bridge. But I didn’t expect her to go as far as she did!

Meghan took matters into her own hands, crafted a plan using the wrong medication, disabled the machines, and confessed strategically to protect her professional standing. That was a bold and calculated move.

What Didn’t Sit Well with Me about the Conclusion?

Honestly, the final parts of the book became too chaotic. Kubica, like in some of her other works, set up too many storylines early on but didn’t always connect them meaningfully. While Caitlyn turning out to be Ben’s girlfriend was a clever detail, things started spiralling after that.

The plot began to stretch too thin rather than being woven tightly. I found it odd that Sienna believed Caitlyn’s claims about her mother’s deception, especially since Caitlyn was just her dad’s new partner and hardly someone close to their family. Sienna leaving anonymous threatening messages felt random.

Aside from making her appear mentally unstable like Meghan, the notes barely added any weight to the story. They weren’t even mentioned again until the reveal, which made that plotline feel unnecessary. On top of that, there was a scene involving a fake ransom.

Meghan gave someone $10,000 only to find out Sienna hadn’t even gone missing. That entire incident only served to paint Caitlyn in a bad light—something that had already been well established. Even though Meghan made a few comments about local assaults, it was never presented clearly that these incidents would tie into the main plot.

They seemed more like background noise, showing that Meghan was a worried mother. But then the twist about Luke being the attacker and abducting Sienna suddenly dropped in. If that subplot was supposed to be important, it should’ve been better integrated earlier in the book.

It came out of nowhere, and although it served to add danger, the motive behind Luke’s obsession with Sienna and Meghan didn’t hold up. That part just felt confusing. Then there’s the epilogue. Did it make things clearer or raise more questions? On one hand, I was glad Meghan escaped punishment.

I also liked the tension created when Ben handed her the ring and she realised he might know more than he was letting on. But how exactly did Ben get the ring? Caitlyn had been wearing it when she fell off the bridge, so it should have been recovered by her family, not Ben.

Besides, the ring only showed Caitlyn had stolen it—it wasn’t proof of anything Meghan did. We saw Caitlyn take the ring when she visited Meghan’s house, so its presence didn’t prove anything specific. What bothered me most was the lack of clarity around what Ben truly suspected.

Did he assume Meghan had pushed Caitlyn simply because the ring came back to him? Or did he believe Meghan had intentionally ended Caitlyn’s life? If that was the idea, it’s not clear what evidence he had or what motive he thought Meghan had. I found myself wanting more explanation here.

After thinking it through, it seemed like the twist was meant to suggest that Ben had worked things out quietly, but I wasn’t sure how much he truly knew.