The Authenticity Project

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Call Number: Fiction / Pooley, Clare, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Pooley, Clare
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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"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 Cafe, 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.

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Very very good submitted by leah karr on August 19, 2022, 6:50pm I really liked this book. Read it at a time in my life when I didn't have long stretches of time to read, more like a few 20 minute increments each day and this fit perfectly into my life then. I enjoyed the characters and recommend this book to friends

Very good submitted by kmp009 on July 2, 2023, 9:22am This book does a great job of juggling the point of view of multiple characters, I really enjoyed it.

Good submitted by ElleH on July 2, 2023, 4:48pm The book is good, I’m just disappointed with the ending.