![]() This compulsive need to have everything timetabled follows through into Don’s search for a “life partner”. Everything is run to a very tight and precise schedule, right down to a minute-by-minute blow of his entire day. He is the type of person that lacks any kind of “situation sense”. He has odd fashion sense, lacks empathy with other people and doesn’t have the faintest clue about small talk or social niceties. That’s probably because he’s unconventional - in all senses of the word. That man is Don Tillman, a 39-year-old professor of genetics at a university in Melbourne, who doesn’t seem to have much luck with women. The Rosie Project is a lovely offbeat story about a socially inadequate man trying to find a wife. I read this book with a mixture of delight and joy, and found it the perfect antidote to a slew of much harder hitting novels. It’s droll and original and quirky and often laugh-out-loud funny. ![]() The first person narrator in Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project has one of those voices. ![]() I often think that voice is everything when it comes to the enjoyment of a novel, particularly if that voice is distinctive, unique, intimate and funny. ![]() Fiction – hardcover Michael Joseph 329 pages 2013. ![]()
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