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Saturday, September 28, 2024

The Authenticity Project - Book Review


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


A green notebook and a single page of note paper


Cast of Characters


  • Julian Jessop
  • Monica
  • Hazard
  • Alice
  • Riley 
  • Lizzie


Location: London, England


Synopsis of The Authenticity Project



Julian Jessop is a rather eccentric, though quite lonely, artist in his late 70s.  He believes that most people aren’t really honest with each other. He begins to wonder what would happen if people actually told the truth about themselves. 


Julian decides to tell the truth about his own life ~ writing in a plain green journal. He ends his story with:



How well do you know the people who live near you? How well do they know you?


Everyone lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth instead? The one thing that defines you, that makes everything else about you fall into place? 


….maybe telling that story would change your life, or the life of someone you’ve not yet met.


Then he leaves the journal in a local cafe. 


The cafe is Monica's Café, owned by the incredibly tidy and efficient Monica. Monica reads the journal entry, finds Julian’s story and his philosophy about truth intriguing, and eventually adds her own entry. She then leaves the book in the wine bar across the street. 


Before long, the other characters in this charming story find the green notebook, add the truths about their own deepest selves, and, amazingly somehow find each other In Real Life


The Authenticity Project'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; Riley, the vacationing gardener from Perth, Australia, and Lizzie - who brings the ‘authentic’ to The Authenticity Project - are quirky, funny, sometimes heartbreakingly sad, and very true-to-life. 


The Authenticity Project is a story about being brave and putting your real self forward. The new friends discover this is not as scary as it seems. In fact, it appears to look a lot like happiness. 


A heartfelt story you will read with deep pleasure. 


Summary


The Authenticity Project is a delightful, feel-good, novel by Clare Pooley, a British author, speaker and blogger who has written a half-dozen novels to date. More reviews of this author’s interesting books will be coming soon.


*Book review of ‘The Authenticity Project’ written by Wednesday Elf




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