5 stars for The Rosie Project (Don Tillman book 1) by Graeme Simsion.
The Rosie Project is a marvellous, distinctive debut novel about love, friendship and life with a good dose of dry humor. If you like Sheldon Cooper (played by Jim Parsons) in The Big Bang Theory, you will definitely enjoy reading Don Tillman's wife project.
Don Tillman, a socially challenged genetics professor is getting married, but he doesn't know to who yet. So he designs a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman. His questionnaire is intended to filter out anyone who is unsuitable.
When Rosie Jarman comes to his office, Don assumes it is to apply for the Wife Project - and duly discounts her on the grounds she smokes, drinks, doesn't eat meat, and is incapable of punctuality. He tells himself that Rosie is not the one, absolutely, completely and definitely.
However, Rosie has no interest in becoming Mrs Tillman and 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...
Publisher: Penguin Export
Publication date: 1 Apr 2013
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An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love.
Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a “wonderful” husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. She will be punctual and logical—most definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.
Yet Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent—and on a quest of her own. She is looking for her biological father, a search that a certain DNA expert might be able to help her with. Don's Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the realization that love is not always what looks good on paper.
*Blurb from Goodreads*
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