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The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion

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Synopsis

The feel-good novel of 2013, The Rosie Project is a classic screwball romance.

Rights sold into more than thirty countries.

Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn’t know who to yet.

But he has designed the Wife Project, using a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.

Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent and beautiful. And on a quest of her own to find her biological father—a search that Don, a professor of genetics, might just be able to help her with.

The Wife Project teaches Don some unexpected things. Why earlobe length is an inadequate predictor of sexual attraction. Why quick-dry clothes aren’t appropriate attire in New York. Why he’s never been on a second date. And why, despite your best scientific efforts, you don’t find love: love finds you.

Product details

ISBN:: 9781922079770
Category:: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Format:: Paperback
Publication Date:: 2013-01-30
Publisher:: The Text Publishing Company
Country of origin:: AUS
Pages:: 304

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Four Stars

A unique and feel good read

Reviewed by Bookworld B. | see all reviews by Bookworld B.

02/01/2013
Weve selected this one amongst lots of brilliant debut novels this month because its a really well written, feel good story. There is a trend at the moment for books to be written in a really unique (sometimes autistic) voice. This has that unique, distinct, quirky voice but where it really differs and shines is its humour and the way it makes you feel while you are reading it. It has the ability to make you laugh and smile with the antics that Don gets up to. Its got a great morale - that sometimes you just cant plan everything and life takes you by surprise.
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Five Stars

a brilliant debut

Reviewed by Marianne V. | see all reviews by Marianne V.

30/01/2013
The Rosie Project is the first novel by Australian author and playwright, Graeme Simsion. Professor Don Tillman is unmarried, and a consideration of the statistics leads him to conclude he needs a wife. While Dons physical attributes and career should make him an attractive prospective husband, his social ineptitude has resulted in a track record of unsatisfactory dating experiences, the Apricot Ice Cream Disaster and the Pig Trotter Disaster being just two examples. He therefore decides to vet applicants for his Wife Project with a 16-page (double-sided) questionnaire, in the interests of efficiency. When Rosie Jarman sweeps into his life, Don quickly concludes that this smoking, swearing barmaid with punctuality problems is entirely unsuitable, yet, against all his rational instincts, he decides to offer his expertise in genetics in the search for her father. Soon his regimented, logical life is turned upside down: Don learns the danger inherent in judging a person by their occupation, and that not everything in life follows a formula.
Simsion has created a very funny novel which also has the reader thinking about emotion and logic, love and friendship, conventionality and non-conformists, and what it takes to modify ones behaviour. This is a fast-paced love story with an interesting twist. Simsions characters have plenty of depth and the fact that none of them is perfect adds to their appeal. While Don may be wired differently (mentally assessing the age and BMI of everyone he meets, reacting to stress with a spreadsheet or a schedule), he has integrity, focus, enthusiasm and determination, and it is impossible not to feel empathy with him even while laughing at his missteps. And impossible not to shed a tear when he suspects he is incapable of love and therefore unacceptable. This novel is filled with laugh-out-loud moments: a madcap cocktail party, a dance fiasco and a novel escape from a bathroom, to name just a few. Dons highly embarrassing moment with an instruction book, a skeleton and the University Dean is utterly hilarious. The irony of Don delivering a lecture on Aspergers is quite delicious, and who could guess there would be so many inventive ways to obtain a DNA sample! This is a brilliant debut novel. It is no surprise to learn that it won the Victorian Premiers Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript in 2012, and that the rights have been sold to over 30 countries. I look forward to more from Graeme Simsion.
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Although there are many laughs to be found in this marvellous novel, The Rosie Project is a serious reflection on our need for companionship and identity. Don Tillman is as awkward and confusing a narrator as he is lovable and charming. John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

'Funny and heartwarming, a gem of a book' - Marian Keyes.

'Graeme Simsion has created an unforgettable and charming character unique in fiction. Don Tillman is on a quirky, often hilarious, always sincere quest to logically discover what is ultimately illogical—love. Written in a superbly pitch-perfect voice, The Rosie Project had me cheering for Don on every page. I’m madly in love with this book! Trust me, you will be, too.' - Lisa Genova, bestselling author of Still Alice and Left Neglected

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