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The authenticity project / Clare Pooley.
"A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love--think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love, Actually. "Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?" This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he labels The Authenticity Project, before leaving it behind in Monica's Café. When Monica discovers Julian's abandoned notebook, not only does she add her own story to the book, she is determined to find a way to help Julian feel less lonely. And so it goes with the others who find the green notebook that will soon contain their deepest selves. It will also knit the group together In Real Life at Monica's Café, where they'll discover the thrill and sometime-risk of being completely honest--and, for some, find unexpected love. With a cast of characters who are by turns quirky and funny, heartbreakingly sad and painfully true-to-life, The Authenticity Project is a novel readers will take to their hearts and read with unabashed pleasure."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735238435 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 357 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Viking Canada, 2020.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | FIC Poole | 31681010185833 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Penguin Putnam
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Globe and Mail bestseller
Toronto Star bestseller
A Washington Post âFEEL-GOOD BOOK guaranteed to lift your spiritsâ
"I loved The Authenticity Project. It's a clever, uplifting book that entertains and makes you think." âSophie Kinsella, #1 New York Times bestselling author
The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendshipâand even love.
Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren't really honest with each other. But what if they were? And so he writesâin a plain, green journalâthe truth about his own life and leaves it in his local café. It's run by the incredibly tidy and efficient Monica, who furtively adds her own entry and leaves the book in the wine bar across the street. Before long, the others who find the green notebook add the truths about their own deepest selvesâand soon find each other In Real Life at Monica's Café.
The Authenticity Project's cast of charactersâincluding Hazard, the charming addict who makes a vow to get sober; Alice, the fabulous mommy Instagrammer whose real life is a lot less perfect than it looks online; and their other new friends-is by turns quirky and funny, heartbreakingly sad and painfully true-to-life. It's a story about being brave and putting your real self forwardâand finding out that it's not as scary as it seems. In fact, it looks a lot like happiness.
The Authenticity Project is just the tonic for our times that readers are clamoring forâand one they will take to their hearts and read with unabashed pleasure.
