The Authenticity Project
A Novel
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Globe and Mail bestseller
Toronto Star bestseller
A Washington Post “FEEL-GOOD BOOK guaranteed to lift your spirits”
"I loved The Authenticity Project. It's 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 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,…
Clare Pooley graduated from Cambridge University and then spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time writer. Her debut novel, The Authenticity Project, was a New York Times bestseller, and has been translated into 29 languages. Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting is her second novel; her third novel, How to Age Disgracefully, is forthcoming. Pooley lives in Fulham, London, with her husband, three children, and two border terriers.