I Hope This Finds You Well: A Novel

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"Hilarity ensues."— TAYLOR JENKINS REID • "Fans of The Office will delight." — SHELBY VAN PELT • "Wickedly funny." — PEOPLE • "I could not put it down." â€” JULIA QUINN • "A workplace sitcom transformed into a romantic comedy novel." — ELLE

In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to her colleagues’ private emails and DMs and decides to use this intel to save her job—a laugh-till-you-cry debut novel you’ll be eager to share with your entire list of contacts, perfect for fans of Anxious People and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.

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 color 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 favor, convince HR she’s Supershops material, and beat out the competition.

But as Jolene is drawn further into her coworkers' private worlds and realizes they are each keeping secrets, her carefully constructed walls begin to crumble—especially around Cliff, who she definitely cannot have feelings for. Eventually she will need to decide if she’s ready to leave the comfort of her cubicle, even if that 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 along with it.

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Published May 21, 2024

352 pages

Average rating: 6.78

480 RATINGS

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Readers say *I Hope This Finds You Well* blends sharp workplace comedy with heartfelt explorations of anxiety and social awkwardness, creating a relat...

KelBel
Oct 04, 2025
3/10 stars
First of all this was billed as a laugh out loud comedy. Ummmm no I did giggle a little but most of all it was sort of depressing. It was more real life but not, I couldn't stop reading in a watching a train wreck sort of way. The love story aspect was cute I guess, and the work Jolene did on/for herself was good. But overall it was just sort blah..
Zoe E.
Mar 17, 2025
7/10 stars
I feel like this book is done a disservice by its ad copy. It's amusing in its depictions of the indignities of modern office culture, but it's far from a laugh riot. Instead our protagonist Jolene has social anxiety, unresolved grief and trauma, and suffers from alcoholism. She alternately lashes out and withdraws, and makes questionable decisions that can make it hard to root for her (though I did!). Then everything ties up super neatly at the end in a rom-com arc. I thought the writing was good and the romance was sweet and there were some serious themes raised, but ultimately the book isn't done favors by the smashing together of genres/tones.
dcusanelli
Dec 16, 2025
8/10 stars
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. Loosing her job would be catastrophic as she lacks the finances to pay the rent, which would force her to live at home with her overbearing mother; something she really dreads. RATE THE NOVEL The novel is slow and quite plain, nothing earthshattering or enlightening at all. It portrays the boring lives of low paid menial workers. Their only excitement is gossiping about each other. It reminds me of the TV series "The Office" with all the same office politics, mind games, and odd personalities. It gets it's points (I rated it 4/5) because of the author's ability to create a story that most people, including myself, can relate to. I found the ending implausible. A year after losing her job and having to regroup, Jolene finds herself in a new and better job, has a boyfriend (Cliff, the HR guy) and is OK with socializing with the same people who gave her all that stress and caused her to loose her job in the first place. "The happily ever after" ending just happened too fast. The author should have developed the ending a bit more to make it appear more plausible to the reader. Also, the novel has many similarities with another book, "Eleanor Oliphant is OK." It makes me wonder if the present book was modeled against the other.
dcusanelli
Dec 08, 2025
8/10 stars
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. Loosing her job would be catastrophic as she lacks the finances to pay the rent, which would force her to live at home with her overbearing mother; something she really dreads. RATE THE NOVEL The novel is slow and quite plain, nothing earthshattering or enlightening at all. It portrays the boring lives of low paid menial workers. Their only excitement is gossiping about each other. It reminds me of the TV series "The Office" with all the same office politics, mind games, and odd personalities. It gets it's points (I rated it 4/5) because of the author's ability to create a story that most people, including myself, can relate to. I found the ending implausible. A year after losing her job and having to regroup, Jolene finds herself in a new and better job, has a boyfriend (Cliff, the HR guy) and is OK with socializing with the same people who gave her all that stress and caused her to loose her job in the first place.
Onetrulady
Nov 18, 2025
8/10 stars
I adored this book. Just enough cheese and the right amount of be good to thy neighbor. You never know what’s going on in the real lives of others and it takes so little so show some kindness to others and ourselves. I thought this book did a great job taking the message home with some laughter and love.

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