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A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship and even love--think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love Actually. 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 paleA story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship and even love--think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love Actually. 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.(less)