WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

true to life
    adj 1: representing things or actions or conditions as they
           actually are; "the novel about ghetto life was true to
           life"; "true-to-life duck decoys" [syn: true-to-
           life(a), true to life(p)]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

77 Moby Thesaurus words for "true to life":
   authentic, bona fide, breathing, candid, card-carrying,
   delineative, depictive, descriptive, dinkum, expositive,
   expressive, faithful, following the letter, genuine, good, graphic,
   honest, honest-to-God, inartificial, lawful, legitimate, lifelike,
   literal, living, natural, naturalistic, original, pure, real,
   realistic, representative, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere,
   speaking, sterling, sure-enough, to the life, true to nature,
   true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming,
   uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised,
   undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful,
   unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined,
   unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified,
   unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished,
   verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, vivid, well-drawn,
   word-for-word