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The authenticity project

Clare Pooley

2020368 pagesabout 6–8 hours
2020
first published
  • 2020Transworld Publishers Limited · ENGISBN 9781473568495
  • 2020Penguin Canada · 368 pages · ENGISBN 9780735238435
  • 2020Penguin Publishing Group · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9781984878625
  • 2020Transworld Publishers Limited · 416 pages · ENGISBN 9781787631793
  • 2021Transworld Publishers Limited · 368 pages · ENGISBN 9781784164690
  • 2020Penguin Books · 384 pagesISBN 9781984878632
  • 2020Penguin Group USAISBN 9781094259048
  • 2020Random House Large Print · 496 pagesISBN 9780593171820

The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and 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 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.

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