The authenticity project
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"A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love. "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"--
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Pooley, C. (2020). The authenticity project. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Pooley, Clare. 2020. The Authenticity Project. Penguin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Pooley, Clare, The Authenticity Project. Penguin Books, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Pooley, Clare. The Authenticity Project. Penguin Books, 2020.
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