Clare Pooley

The Authenticity Project

Le Fabuleux Voyage du carnet des silences

January 1, 2021

Novel

480 pages

140 × 210 mm

21,90 €

978-2-2651-4413-2

Traduit de l'anglais par

Karine Reignier-Guerre

Sometimes sincerity works wonders.

Monica gave up her career as a solicitor to pursue her dream of opening a café on Fulham Road. Yet she is missing something essential. The day she discovers a strange notebook on one of the tables entitled ”Pleasure and danger of being sincere“, her life is turned upside down.
The first pages reveal to her the moving confession of Julian Jessop, an eccentric artist, aged seventy-nine, who expresses all his sadness and loneliness since the death of his wife. Touched by the idea of entrusting deep feelings to strangers, Monica decides to continue the notebook by revealing her desire for a child, before dropping it off to find a new owner. At the risk of seeing her destiny and that of the other characters unexpectedly upset...

The author

Clare Pooley is a British blogger and novelist. A graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge, she spent twenty years in advertising before becoming a full-time mother. The Authenticity Project, her first novel, created international acclaim and thirty or so assignments before it was even published.
Clare lives in Fulham, London, with her husband, three children, a dog and a cupboard full of non-alcoholic beers.

Strong points

A first novel of rare success, Clare Pooley will be to be counted by the new talents of the genre.

A contemporary subject, an exquisite writing style and an incomparable romantic force: this text combines all the ingredients to become THE novel of the summer.