I Hope This Finds You Well: A Novel

Natalie Sue
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I Hope This Finds You Well: A Novel

Natalie Sue
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Overall rating: 4.448276 / 5 from 29 reviews.

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I Hope This Finds You Well is a highly praised debut novel that offers a humorous and heartwarming take on office life. Readers appreciate its relatable observations and laugh-out-loud dialogue, making it a perfect choice for fans of workplace comedies.

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  • Enjoyable Read (27%): Customers keep praising this book for being a great and enjoyable read!" (100% agreement)
  • Interesting Premise (31%): Many customers brought up that they absolutely loved this book, making it an amazing book with an interesting premise.

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Review highlights

  • "Not a light and happy read, but an amusing and entertaining read."Rebecca G.
  • "This was a fun, heartwarming read, that took me by surprise!"Hatmo
  • "A delightful and LOCAL read!"Kirtykb

Reviews

A good first novel about daily life

"At first I wasn't sure this novel would go anywhere. Another forlorn and dead end employee. However, with humour and some keen insights to life, the author pulls the story together in a tale we likely will all identify with."

Paul M. (4/5)

Entertaining and heartwarming

"I absolutely loved this book! Natalie Sue is a talented writer! It was funny and heartwarming. I was sorry when I got to the last chapter since it meant it was the end of the book. Looking forward to future books from this author."

Nchic (5/5)

got me out of a reading slump

"I was in a bit of a reading slump, then I read this book at airports while travelling, and it was a fun light read. It kickstarted me back into reading so if you are looking for a book like that, this could be it!"

Margaret (4/5)

Can we find humour through sadness

"Qwerky story. I felt there was a great deal of sadness around the key person in the story. She suffers from insecurities, overbearing mother, haughty co-workers. For me there was too much sarcasm with only a few memorably funny episodes. Surprised it won the 2025 Stephen Leacock Award for Humourous Writing."

Zuni (4/5)

Couldn't put this book down

"Smart and deeply empathetic, this book kept me hooked until the very last page."

Melissa C. (5/5)

Fun and sweet

"A fun, funny and sweet read! From a anadian author too! :D"

Audry (4/5)

“I Hope This Finds You Well” found me smiling.

"An enjoyable read that brought many smiles and chuckles. I found myself very vested in the main character’s actions."

Lisa T. (4/5)

Office Drama

"The characters were likable but after reading the introduction I expected the book to be alot funnier than it was. Instead there was alot of inter office bullying and drama that I had not expected to take a main part in the book."

Arlene (3/5)

Fun read!

"This was a fun, heartwarming read, that took me by surprise! Great for anyone who has ever worked in an office environment."

Hatmo (5/5)

Great book with an interesting premise!

"Very much enjoyed by my book club. Would recommend for anyone who's ever experienced workplace drama (haven't we all?)!"

Catt (5/5)

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  • Published date: May 21, 2024
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 352
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
  • ISBN: 9781443470254
  • Dimensions: 6.0" W x 0.79" L x 9.0" H

I Hope This Finds You Well is like a donut in a break room: unexpected, surprisingly sweet, and totally made my day. Which is to say: I devoured it! While fans of The Office will delight in a modern send-up of workplace shenanigans, that comparison oversimplifies, because Natalie Sue has infused her main character with so much nuanced baggage that it echoes the movie Bridesmaids. We are all cheering wholeheartedly for this messy main character. We hope life, eventually, finds her well.” - Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures

“Snarky, romantic, and wickedly heartfelt, I Hope This Finds You Well is like the first perfect cup of coffee out of the office coffee pot. If you’re looking for your next favorite read, this book has everything—vengeful coworkers, fake engagements, and a hero with a heart of gold. Natalie Sue’s debut is an absolute stunner!” - Ashley Poston, New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics

"Bright, hilarious, witty and smart, I absolutely loved Natalie Sue's debut novel, I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL. Sue portrays the tedium and triumph of life in an office cubicle, along with its water cooler chats, bad coffee, awkward happy hours...and the magic that happens when lonely people search for connection." - Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters and The Lifeguards

"In her debut, Sue creates a vivid portrait of a truly lonely, heartbroken woman. Anyone who has worked in an office will appreciate the level of detail Sue uses to describe the experience—the particular bleakness of a sad office party, the petty gossip, the alliances and enmities. . . . A beautiful, honest, and often funny look at loneliness and the courage it takes to simply keep going." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Let’s not underestimate the schadenfreude of delving into fictional office drama from a safe distance . . . Natalie Sue’s I Hope This Finds You Well over-delivers in this department, putting a funny twist on misery in cubicle land. . . . Sue takes a clever concept and ratchets up the stakes while “shining a light,” as corporate folk like to say, on the dusty plants, awkward birthday cakes and printer paper politics that loom large in workaday life." - New York Times Book Review

“Delightfully quirky . . . The workplace hijinks produce steady laughs, and Sue adds depth through the backstory of Ellie, with whom Jolene found solace as a fellow misfit. This is a must-read.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"If you enjoyed the dry wit of Monica Heisey's Really Good, Actually, then you'll love I Hope This Finds You Well. . . . A darkly funny satire that cuts right to the quick of modern office life, this will resonate with anyone who's ever rolled their eyes at the water cooler." - Harper's Bazaar

"A hilarious and heartfelt exploration of the secrets we keep in order to get ahead and what happens when those painful truths no longer hold us back. Full of wickedly sharp banter and spectacularly funny office shenanigans, Jolene's story stole my heart, and I cheered her on through every page of it." - Elle Cosimano, New York Times bestselling author of Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

"This one was so good and also so unexpected . . . This book is snarky and funny, and then it sneaks up on you by being way deeper and more emotional than you’d guess from the premise. I could not put it down.” - Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series, Today.com

"An absolute gem. I don't remember the last time a book made me laugh and cry this much. Natalie Sue's depictions of office life are painfully spot-on yet hilarious, as are her characters. Anybody who's ever worked a dreary job or struggled to connect with another person (and isn't that all of us?) will relate to this gorgeously quirky and undeniably touching story." - Margarita Montimore, bestselling author of Oona Out of Order

"Office Space meets Fleabag in this utterly unique, hilarious and lovable novel. Natalie nails the minutiae of being a cog in the machine of corporate capitalism, but more impressively she gets to the heart of what it really means to be human. An absolute delight." - Colleen Oakley, USA Today bestselling author of The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

"I knew I would fall in love with I Hope This Finds You Well from the first page, and I was right. This is a book you're going to want to read as slowly as possible to savor every hilarious, heartfelt moment with these lovable, broken, all-too-real characters!" - Jesse Q. Sutanto, USA Today bestselling author of Dial A For Aunties

“A hilarious skewering of office culture and its mundanities, I Hope This Finds You Well is also a poignant tale of human connection. Natalie Sue deftly shows us that, as much as our coworkers annoy us, most of them are just trying to do the best with the hand life has dealt them—just like we are.” - Mikki Brammer, author of The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Darkly funny with a brilliant premise: our endearingly petty protagonist Jolene accidentally gets access to her colleagues' emails. Think The Office, but for burnt out Millennials." - Emma Gannon, internationally bestselling author of Olive

“Sue speaks to the realities of contemporary workplace etiquette with humor, cutting wit, and heart.” - Iman Hariri-Kia, author of A Hundred Other Girls

“There are some books that contain characters so real that you find yourself wondering what they are up to long after you finish reading. Such is the case with Jolene, the protagonist of Natalie Sue’s excellent I Hope This Finds You Well, whose inner life, anxieties, fears, and thoughts are so utterly believable that she leaps off the page. . . . It’s a true delight.” - Glamour

“This is likely the cutest-ever take on an inexcusable, wholly unethical invasion of privacy. … This is a cheerful book about people who do terrible things but are not, themselves, terrible. Who can’t relate?” - NPR

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