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The Rosie Project

by Graeme Simsion
Don wants to find a wife, but Rosie doesn't fit the criteria listed in his questionnaire. A charming, fun account of an unusual relationship.
The Rosie Project
by Graeme Simsion
My review:

Don Tillman is an attractive man – a professor of genetics who looks like Gregory Peck– and he isn’t short of female attention. But he is socially inept and takes everything in life very literally. When he decides to find a life partner, he designs a questionnaire to ensure all candidates fulfil his demanding criteria.

Then he meets Rosie. She is everything he has been intending to avoid yet she’s intelligent and intriguing. And she has her own quest, to find her biological father, a pursuit for which Don, the DNA expert, is perfectly qualified.

As Rosie and Don narrow down the possibilities for her parentage, so their friendship blossoms, against the odds. Their adventures and developing relationship are presented by Don through his own idiosyncratic take on life which is both naïve and telling, wry and charming. This is a fun story which is quite simplistic in its characterization and resolutions but nonetheless hugely satisfying and uplifting.
 

This review appears on LoveReading.co.uk.

Date of my review February 2013