REVIEW: I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue

Would you want to know what your colleagues say behind your back? Jolene certainly doesn’t.

She’s riddled with anxiety, depressed, and hates her coworkers. The less she knows about them, the better. So when a catastrophic IT f*ck up grants her access to all of their emails and private messages, she’s initially horrified. The last thing she wants is to be privy to their sad discussions about dying desk plants and marital troubles.

That’s until with job cuts looming, she realises the power this new-found knowledge gives her. But as she digs deeper and deeper into the private lives of her colleagues, Jolene uncovers a lot more than she bargained for… And the walls she’d so carefully built start crumbling down.

Welcome to a new kind of corporate espionage in this darkly funny and tragically relatable tale of modern day working culture. From the very first page the social awkwardness was almost paralysing, cutting into those strange traditions and unspoken rules of the office that we follow but honestly make no sense.

We move through the dull monotonous rituals of office life and the stress of family, loneliness and adulting; going through the motions with Jolene as she appraises the world around her with a whip-smart humour and hilarious observations, sharing thoughts we’ve all had but never said out loud. She’s got a mischievous, playful streak that I fell in love with but also clearly has some trauma and tragedy from her past that’s trying to creep back in.

As Jolene finds herself getting pulled deeper into a web of spying and lies, it got intense; I felt the nerves and fear wondering if she’d get caught, if she’d taken it just a little too far but I just couldn’t stop reading. It had the high-stakes of a thriller, with a dash of absolutely swoon-worthy workplace romance, a generous helping of silliness and a lot of heart.

Now, I’m going to check my email settings while you add this book to your tbr.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I Hope This Finds You Well will be available from 23rd May with Harper Collins UK. I was gifted an advanced reviewers copy of this title in return for a review.
Please check content warnings before reading as this title contains subjects that be upsetting including domestic abuse and illness.

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