When an IT mix-up grants a troubled office drone access to her entire department’s private emails and DMs, she can’t resist using her new “gift” to try and save her job ahead of upcoming cuts.  But her plan starts to hit a few snags when she realizes that everyone else, who seem to know what they are doing, are not as together as they would have everybody think.  She starts to sympathize and, eventually, build real relationships with those around her, relationships that eventually outlive her time employed with the company.

I Hope This Finds You Well, the debut from Natalie Sue, fell on my radar as a nominee for favorite fiction in the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards.  It is a fairly relatable work, as the main character thinks of the people around her only in respect to how they relate to her and losing track that they have their own lives and problems that have nothing to do with her.  It is a trap I fall into from time to time.  I look forward to Sue’s future work.