No Worries If Not!

One little word. One bad habit. One year to stop saying sorry. What happens when one woman resolves to spend a year not saying sorry? Charlotte Thomas is polite. Manners cost nothing, her mother always said…yet there’s a fine line between diplomat and doormat. But every woman has their breaking point and Charlotte has just found hers. It wasn’t because she said sorry to the manspreader on the tram into work, or because she apologised to her boss for being late after having to get him a latte. It wasn’t because she agreed to go on a third date with the world’s most boring man to not hurt his feelings. Maybe it was all of these, or maybe it was because it was when she realised she ended every email that day with the fateful words: No Worries If Not. With the help of her best friend and housemate Mush, that night she declares 365 days of not saying sorry. No more apologies for just doing her job, or speaking her mind or simply taking up space. It seems easy. Until she finds herself sacked, single and dare she say it…sorry she even started this. When she bumps into the manspreader who began it all, Charlotte lets rip. When she’s finished shouting about why he’s the rudest man she’s ever met and the source of all her problems, she realises, annoyingly, he’s also the best looking man she’s ever had the misfortune to sit next to…