A New York Times bestseller
A *WASHINGTON POST "*FEEL-GOOD BOOK guaranteed to lift your spirits"
"A warm, charming tale about the rewards of revealing oneself, warts and
all."
--People
The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six
strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love
Clare Pooley's next book, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting, is
forthcoming
Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes
that most people aren't really honest with one another. But what if they
were? And so he writes--in a plain, green journal--the 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
selves--and soon find each other In Real Life at Monica's Café.
The Authenticity Project's cast of characters--including 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 forward--and 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 for--and one they will take to their hearts and read with
unabashed pleasure.
