Thank you so much for the ARC. I just finished reading and I loved this book! It made me feel all of the different emotions and had me hooked from the beginning. It definitely reminded myself that we don’t always know what is going on behind the scenes in another persons life!

What a fab debut by Natalie Sue!
Would you spy on your colleagues if a glitch in your computer made it possible? I totally would and enjoyed the ride that followed as Jolene does exactly that.
Really enjoyed this.

We follow Jolene, an office worker who essentially keeps to herself and has coworkers, who she doesn't particularly like. When she ends up having access to all of her coworkers' emails and instant messages due to an IT error, she realises the power that this mess-up gives her.

I Hope This Finds You Well is well-written and witty, with a dive into Jolene's life, which is a bit (a lot) messy, and corporate culture with pressures and expectations. While it's a little dramatised for entertainment purposes, the exploration of the issues with corporate culture felt really relatable!

A big message of this one is that you don't really know what is going on in someone else's life, even when you see them every day.

All in all, this was a great debut story!

Thank you Harper Collins Aus for an e-arc of this one! All opinions are my own.

I LOVED this book! It made me ugly cry, laugh out loud and is so relatable - we all want to say our true feelings out loud but refrain! It’s witty and a great reminder that we don’t know what everyone is going through behind the scenes.

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins Publishers Australia for this ARC.

4.5/5

when I read that this was "perfect for fans of The Office and Monica Heisey's 'Really Good, Actually'", I knew I needed to read it. We follow Jolene, who keeps to herself but essentially hates everyone in the office, until she accidentally exposes herself so she somehow wounds up having access to all of her co-workers emails and IMs...

This was so much fun to read! It was well-written, well paced, witty, and riddled with anxiety over the actions of Jolene, the primary character we follow. I Hope This Finds You Well is a tender, messy, complex exploration into corporate culture and how far we go to fit in, save our own asses but also deal with life as it is and as it comes. It intertwines familial obligations and relationships as an underlying "b-plot" of sorts, which was very necessary to the progression of the story. All of these elements were combined beautifully, with this story exemplifying how under the surface, every single person has their own stuff going on.

The development at the conclusion of the novel was beautiful to witness, and it could not have ended any other way. There is a romance subplot to this story, which adds to it in a realistic manner whilst juggling everything else that's going on.

All in all, a great debut. Would wholeheartedly recommend this.

thank you so much NetGalley and HarperCollins Australia for the arc in exchange for an honest review, always so appreciated!

l Hope This Finds You Well // Natalie Sue

Jolene works an office job with annoying coworkers she doesn’t really know or like. she’s a bit of a mess, she's depressed, she drinks too much. i went into this having heard comparisons to Eleanor Olliphant and that it was a fun, lighthearted office comedy with an unlikeable main character. i was expecting character growth and changes within a toxic workplace.

there are themes of diversity, loneliness, depression, grief, domestic abuse, pressures of expectation. there’s some mental health representation, serving as a reminder that we don't always know what other people are going through even when you spend so much time working alongside them. overall this fell a little flat for me, the office politics were unrealistic and i struggled to sympathise with our main character.

thankyou to Harper Collins Australia and netgalley for the eARC