The Authenticity Project: A Novel

About this book

"A clever uplifting book that entertains and makes you think." --Sophie Kinsella #1 New York Times bestselling author 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 arent 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 caf. Its 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 Monicas Caf. The Authenticity Projects 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. Its a story about being brave and putting your real self forward--and finding out that its 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.