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The Authenticity Project - Large Print by Clare Pooley (Paperback)

The Authenticity Project - Large Print by  Clare Pooley (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"'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 Cafâe. 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"--Provided by publisher of regular-sized print version.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"A clever, uplifting book that entertains and makes you think."<br>--Sophie Kinsella, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author <p/>The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love</b> <p/>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. <br><i></i><br><i>The Authenticity Project</i>'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. <p/><i>The Authenticity Project</i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Clare Pooley graduated from Cambridge University, and then spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time writer. Pooley lives in Fulham, London with her husband, three children and two border terriers.

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