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Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she knows only by nickname: Impossibly-Pretty-Constant-Reader and Terribly-Lonely-Teenager. Of course, they never speak. Seasoned commuters never do. Then one morning, the man she calls Smart-But-Sexist-Manspreader chokes on a grape right in front of her. He’d have died were it not for the timely intervention of Sanjay, a nurse, who gives him the Heimlich maneuver.

When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building.

Like many women, Clare Pooley found the juggle of a stressful career and family life a struggle, so she left her successful role as a managing partner in one of the world's biggest advertising agencies to look after her family. She knew the change wouldn't be easy, but she never expected to find herself an overweight, depressed, middle-aged mother of three who was drinking more than a bottle of wine a day and spending her evenings Googling 'am I an alcoholic?'

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.

Every day at 8:05, Iona Iverson boards the train to go to work. Every day, she sees the same people and makes assumptions about them, even giving them nicknames. But they never speak. Obviously. Then, one morning, Smart-but-Sexist-Surbiton chokes on a grape right in front of Iona. Suspiciously-Nice-New Malden steps up to help and saves his life, and this one event sparks a chain reaction. With nothing in common but their commute, an eclectic group of people learn that their assumptions about each other don't match reality.

Six strangers with one universal thing in common: their lives aren’t always what they make them out to be. But what would happen if they told the truth instead? Julian begins The Authenticity Project - a small green notebook containing his ‘truth’ - to pass on and encourage others to share their own. Little does he know that this small act of honesty will impact all those who come into contact with the book and lead to a life-changing world of friendship and forgiveness....

Esta maravillosa novela enlaza el destino de seis desconocidos a través de un cuaderno que les invita a contar su historia y la verdad que hay detrás de cada una de ellas. En esta libreta, que viajará de mano en mano, escribirán las confesiones que hasta ahora no se habían atrevido a compartir con nadie mientras a su alrededor va creándose un círculo de amistad, solidaridad y amor. Pero ser honestos también entraña algunos riesgos....

Lydia imagines her new job running a Senior Citizen's Social Club three afternoons a week will involve drinking tea while playing gentle games of cards, listening to The Beatles and reminiscing about food rationing and The Blitz. She does not expect to find a failed actor addicted to shoplifting, a woman who's been hiding from a mysterious and very chequered past, and a prolific yarn-bomber. After a tragic accident means the council threatens to sell the community centre, the Social Club, aided by their friends in the nursery next door and a geriatric orphaned mongrel, set out to save it.

Julian ist es leid, seine Einsamkeit vor anderen zu verstecken. Der exzentrische alte Herr schreibt sich seine wahren Gefühle von der Seele und lässt das Notizheft in einem kleinen Café liegen. Dort findet es Monica, die Besitzerin. Gerührt von Julians Geschichte, beschließt sie, ihn aufzuspüren, um ihm zu helfen. Und sie hält ihre eigenen Sorgen und Wünsche in dem Büchlein fest, ohne zu ahnen, welch heilende Kraft in diesen kleinen Geständnissen liegt: Als das Notizbuch weiterwandert, wird aus den sechs Findern ein Kreis von Freunden.

Mittags ein Gläschen mit der Freundin, abends mit dem Partner. Immer mehr Alkohol, um endlich loszulassen vom Stress durch Job und Kinder. Doch die Abstürze häufen sich. Nach einem besonders heftigen Wochenende packt Clare Pooley den Wein in den Schrank, kauft Kisten von alkoholfreiem Bier – und kämpft. Mutig und offen lässt sie ihre Hörer_innen teilhaben an den ersten 365 Tagen ohne den Stoff, nach dem sie süchtig ist. Sie erzählt vom Auf und Ab ihrer Gefühle, vom Staunen ihrer Freunde über die neue Clare.

Julian ist es leid, seine Einsamkeit vor anderen zu verstecken. Der exzentrische alte Herr schreibt sich seine wahren Gefühle von der Seele und lässt das Notizheft in einem kleinen Café liegen. Dort findet es Monica, die Besitzerin. Gerührt von Julians Geschichte, beschließt sie, ihn aufzuspüren, um ihm zu helfen. Und sie hält ihre eigenen Sorgen und Wünsche in dem Büchlein fest, ohne zu ahnen, welch heilende Kraft in diesen kleinen Geständnissen liegt: Als das Notizbuch weiterwandert, wird aus den sechs Findern ein Kreis von Freunden.

Sei sconosciuti con una cosa in comune: la loro vita non è così perfetta come vogliono far credere... Uno di questi è Julian, un artista eccentrico che da qualche tempo è precipitato in una profonda solitudine. Nell'accogliente caffè di Londra dove si rifugia nei momenti peggiori, decide di affidare la sua storia alle pagine di un taccuino verde che abbandona incurante su un tavolino. Mai più pensa che Monica, la giovane proprietaria del bar, lo legga e ne rimanga sconvolta.

Der Morgenzug nach London – die perfekte Verbindung für sechs Fremde, die zu Freunden werden. Tag für Tag fährt die Ratgeberkolumnistin Iona in Begleitung ihres Hundes Lulu mit dem Zug die zehn Stationen von Hampton Court nach Waterloo Station. Jeden Tag sieht sie dabei dieselben Leute, denen sie insgeheim Spitznamen gegeben hat: die-unfassbar-hübsche-Leseratte, der-schrecklich-einsame-Teenager oder der-smarte-aber-sexistische-Breitbeinige. Wie alle routinierten Pendler wechseln sie kein Wort miteinander. Bis sich der "Breitbeinige" eines Morgens an einer Weintraube verschluckt.

Ogni giorno alle 8.05 Iona Iverson prende il treno per andare al lavoro e percorre dieci fermate, da Hampton Court alla stazione di Waterloo, accompagnata dal suo cane, Lulu. Ogni giorno vede le stesse persone, su cui fa ipotesi e che conosce solo per i soprannomi che lei stessa gli ha affibbiato. Naturalmente, non parlano tra loro.