The Authenticity Project: The feel-good novel you need right now

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One of the best books I've read in a long time. Original, engaging and unforgettable' * Sunday Times bestselling author, Sarah Morgan * Chin and Sowndhararajan (2020) 35 gave a useful summary of authentication techniques and reported the number of samples and/or honey types analysed per technique by each study reviewed. Inspection of these data (graphed for ease of reference in Supplementary Fig. 1) confirms low numbers of samples in peer-reviewed published studies persists, other than perhaps in non-NMR spectroscopic studies. By contrast commercial NMR databases contain data on over 20,000 samples 32. 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 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. Imagine you are walking down a deserted path and you come upon a bench and there is a journal left behind. No one is around. You can’t help yourself but feel invited to sit on this bench.

A 2015/16 European-wide honey control exercise organised by the European Commission found a substantial proportion (about 20%) of the 2264 samples taken were non-compliant owing to indications by EA-LC-IRMS of foreign sugars. However of these a much lower proportion (about 5%) of the samples taken in the UK were non-compliant, owing to incorrect botanical source (4%) or presence of exogenous sugars (1%) 36. 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 JRC ‘Round Table’ 22 identified a need for internationally-agreed modern purity criteria for honey beyond the basic quality requirements of the current Codex and EU legislation. The ‘Round Table’ suggested a series of actions involving coordinated work from all stakeholders, including at an international level, the latter usually a lengthy process. Text in bold highlights results that may imply the honey was noncompliant with authenticity criteria. Things can't be all sunshine and puppies though so you know conflict and drama are coming to tear it all apart. I was a bit sad to see the friendships built in the first part of the book break down. You would think that with everyone baring their souls in the notebook that they wouldn’t be hiding too many secrets from each other but this is absolutely what happens and anguish ensues. In the end everyone has some sort of a conclusion to their story and it is for the most part positive and happy, but also bittersweet. I became emotionally attached to these characters and I admit I was a bit teary.Many of the conventional, harmonised physicochemical methods underpinning limits in the EU Directive cannot identify sophisticated adulteration. Of the more advanced techniques, EA-LC-IRMS is well characterised and accepted with known and internationally validated performance characteristics, but there seems little immediate prospect of other reported analytical techniques becoming definitive and accepted.

Image: A cat using a mirror to paint a self-portrait - of a tiger. “Self portrait” by Sarang Bhagat ( Source) Other techniques such as the use of biosensors, electronic tongues and noses, and sensory analysis.As they all confront their failures and their fears, they must rely increasingly on their new train friends. But can their newfound friendship solve even the most heartbreaking of problems? There was no disclosure of the identity of the sugars; 10 individual sugars, including mannose, a putative marker for syrups (Shievano et al. 2020 45), and oligosaccharides were reported (see Tables ​ Tables1 1 and ​ and4) 4) without adverse comment How well do you know the people who live near you? How well do they know you? Do you even know the names of your neighbors? Would you realize if they were in trouble, or hadn’t left their house for days? Some people withhold the truth about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth about you? The one thing that defines you, that makes everything else about you fall into place? Would you be willing to share openly with those real people around you? Maybe telling that story would change your life, or the life of someone you’ve not yet met. That’s what I want to find out.”

Honey glycerol found mean 137.6mg/kg, range 50.0 - 366.2mg/kg (Huidobro et al., 1993 39). An upper limit of 300mg/kg has been suggested (Bogdanov & Martin 2002 38). The results found are higher than literature data and suggest incipient fermentation at some stage, the sensory properties should be assessed for off-tastes. Immature harvesting might be a possible explanation. Note however there is no support from the ethanol or 2,3-butandiol data nor has microbiology or microscopy for yeast cells been reported The Authenticity Projectreads like a gorgeous box of chocolates: sweet, surprising and impossible not to love. I found myself cheering, cringing, laughing and crying as I read this book and – above all – remembering the true value of community and human connection.” The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love. In an author’s note at the end of THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT, Clare Pooley reveals how her debut novel grew out of her earlier blog-turned-bestselling nonfiction book, THE SOBER DIARIES: “What I discovered is that telling the truth about your life really can work magic and change the lives of many other people for the better.” Pooley relates how her experience of publishing a blog-turned-book about her own struggles with addiction and recovery had a ripple effect in the lives of friends, acquaintances and complete strangers. In THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT, she dramatizes this process in a tale of a new, supportive community that builds from a single story. It's full of life's truths, funny, poignant and ultimately uplifting. I thoroughly enjoyed it * Fanny Blake *

I feel bad for criticising the believability because at the end, the author says she was a Mummy blogger with a drink problem, in the same part of west London. She’s sober now, and has written and given a TED talk about her experience to help others. Nevertheless, I don’t think the old advice to “write what you know” worked. Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren’t really honest with one another. 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. This one has a quirky set of characters that somehow come together for new friendship, love, and happiness in London. One of the main characters is Monica. She’s finally gone out on her own to open Monica’s Café, but she’s struggling to keep the doors open and the money flowing. One day a mysterious green notebook is left behind in her café and the journey begins! So The Authenticity Project, what is it? Well, Julian is an elderly man who has kept to himself for a very long time. He thinks people aren't honest with one another so he decides to write the truth about himself in a green notebook and he leaves it in a local cafe for someone to find. The owner of the cafe, Monica, comes across the notebook and decides to write about some of the things she is most vulnerable about in her life and then she leaves the notebook in a bar so another person can have their chance to spill their guts. And eventually some of the people who have written in the notebook get a chance to meet, and you'll just have to read the book to find out what happens next.