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