The Authenticity Project

　　一本綠色的筆記本，記錄下七十九歲老人的肺腑之言。流轉在六個陌生人的手裡，他們又記錄下自己的心情，也許這小小的舉動，能影響下一位讀者。

　　七十九歲的尤里安(Julian Jessop)，如告解一般，寫下一切，古怪的老頭不信任任何人，卻又擔心自己錯了。他把所有關於自己的事寫在筆記本上，卻遺落在常去的咖啡館。井然有序的咖啡館，是摩妮卡(Monica)所經營。她三十七歲，孤身一人，下班回到空蕩蕩的公寓，孤獨感襲來。她帶回了筆記本，開始讀了起來，隨後又將自己寫入。最後她把綠色筆記本放在幾條街外的酒吧上。

　　最後被提摩西弗德(Timothy Ford)拾獲，他將筆記本帶到泰國，他本想去那進行戒酒的治療。他知道摩妮卡的故事，他精心為她策劃一場會面。他把書偷偷放入來自澳洲的萊利(Riley)的背包，他正要去倫敦旅行。希望他能找到摩妮卡。

　　一連串的舉動，誰來改變誰的人生?

　　有人想戒酒，有人孤獨，有人看似光鮮亮麗，卻只是表面。在多人手中流轉的筆記本，撩動無數人的內心。風趣、心碎、痛苦的人生，無不指向勇敢面對，大步向前的衝勁。讓真實的自我敢於無懼一切，擁抱幸福。

　　作者克萊兒普雷(Clare Pooley)成為全職媽媽前，在廣告業界打滾二十年。她現在常在廚房的小餐桌上書寫，與丈夫還有三個小孩與一條狗同住。寫出屬於當代人的故事與生活。

　　“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, 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 Monica’s Café.

　　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; and their other new friends–is by turns quirky and funny, heartbreakingly sad and painfully true-to-life. It’s a story about being brave and putting your real self forward–and finding out that it’s 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.