Marvellous". (John Boyne author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas). " Adorable...A gem of a book". (Marian Keyes). The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love life & lobsters... Meet Don Tillman. Don is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman. One thing he already knows though is that it's not Rosie. Absolutely completely definitely not. Telling the story of Rosie & Don Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project is an international phenomenon sold in over thirty countries
- & counting. Don Tillman is a socially challenged genetics professor who's decided the time has come to find a wife. His questionnaire is intended to weed out anyone who's unsuitable. The trouble is Don has rather high standards & doesn't really do flexible so despite lots of takers
- he looks like Gregory Peck
- he's not having much success in identifying The One. When Rosie Jarman comes to his office Don assumes it's to apply for the Wife Project
- & duly discounts her on the grounds she smokes drinks doesn't eat meat & is incapable of punctuality. However Rosie has no interest in becoming Mrs Tillman & is actually there to enlist Don's assistance in a professional capacity: to help her find her biological father. Sometimes though you don't find love: love finds you... Like The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a truly distinctive debut. With the charm of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time & the romance of David Nicholls' One Day it's both funny & endearing
- & is set to become the feel-good novel of 2013... Graeme Simsion is a full-time writer. Previously an IT consultant & educator he wrote his first book in 1994 (the standard reference on data modelling now entering its fourth edition) & is married to Anne a professor of psychiatry who writes erotic fiction. They have two children."