As far as Jolene is concerned, her interactions with her colleagues should start and end with her official duties as an admin for Supershops, Inc. Unfortunately, her irritating, incompetent coworkers don’t seem to understand the importance of boundaries. Her secret to survival? She vents her grievances in petty email postscripts, then changes the text colour to white so no one can see. That is, until one of her secret messages is exposed. Her punishment: sensitivity training (led by the suspiciously friendly HR guy, Cliff) and rigorous email restrictions.
When an IT mix-up grants her access to her entire department’s private emails and DMs, Jolene knows she should report it, but who could resist reading what their coworkers are really saying? And when she discovers layoffs are coming, she realizes this might just be the key to saving her job. The plan is simple: gain her boss’s favour, convince HR she’s Supershops material and beat out the competition.
But as Jolene is drawn further into her coworker’s private worlds and secrets, her carefully constructed walls begin to crumble—especially around Cliff, who she definitely cannot have feelings for. Soon she will need to decide if she’s ready to leave the comfort of her cubicle, even if it means coming clean to her colleagues.
Crackling with laugh-out-loud dialogue and relatable observations, I Hope This Finds You Well is a fresh and surprisingly tender comedy about loneliness and love beyond our computer screens. This sparkling debut novel will open your heart to the everyday eccentricities of work culture and the undeniable human connection that comes with it.
This is the second book on a similar theme I've read recently. Jolene's way of writing the messages and changing the font is - not very well thought out. Why did everyone think there was blank space at the bottom of their emails? What if someone had selected all? We all need to vent sometimes but this was not the way to do it.
Pretty much everyone in her life was terrible in one way or another. Her parents, her work colleagues. To be fair, though, she never seemed to do any actual work apart from one grid a month - she had plenty of time to read people's messages and plot about what to do. I'd love a job like that.
This isn't bad, precisely, lots of people will love it and the romance is certainly good. I just don't understand Jolene's behaviour.
I Hope This Finds You Well publishes on the 21st of May, 2024. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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