A first-date dud, socially awkward and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, genetics professor Don Tillman has given up on love, until a chance encounter gives him an idea.He will design a questionnairea sixteen-page, scientifically researched questionnaireto uncover the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker or a late-arriver. Rosie is all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent, strangely beguiling, and looking for her biological father a search that a DNA expert might just be able to help her with.The Rosie Project is a romantic comedy like no other. It is arrestingly endearing and entirely unconventional, and it will make you want to drink cocktails.Praise for The Rosie ProjectA Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA national and international bestseller#1 Indie Next Pick (US)#1 Library Reads Pick (US)'Funny and heartwarming, a gem of a book.' Marian Keyes"Don Tillman helps us believe in possibility, makes us proud to be human beings, and the bonus is this: he keeps us laughing like hell. I'd love to have a beer with the humane and hilarious Graeme Simsion." - Matthew Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings PlaybookI absolutely loved The Rosie Projectoriginal and clever, and perfectly written. The world is going to fall in love with Don and Rosie and I cant wait for that to happen. -- Jill Mansell, author of To the Moon and BackThe Rosie Project is the best, most honestly told love story Ive read in a long time. Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of Fly Away and Home FrontThis clever and joyful book charmed me from the first. Professor Tillman is an unlikely romantic hero but a brave, winning soul, and his quest to find a wife goes to show that rationality is no match for love. Maggie Shipstead, bestselling author of Seating ArrangementsAlthough there are many laughs to be found in this marvelous 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 PyjamasOne of the best romantic comedies of the year, this debut will leave you with a new perspective on what it means to fall in love. - ChatelaineCrackling with wit and almost boasting an almost perfect calibrated heartbreak-to-romance ratio, Graeme Simsions delightful debut, The Rosie Project, joins ranks with the best romantic comedies of our age. The Globe and MailMove over, Sheldon Cooper. There's a new brilliant, socially inept scientist poised to win over a huge audience, and his name is Don Tillman, in The Rosie Project.It's not surprising that debut novelist Graeme Simsion has a background in science The Rosie Project, already a success in Australia, seems almost precision-engineered to keep readers turning pages. But unlike its unexpectedly lovable hero, this rom-com is bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and intentional humor. Entertainment WeeklySimsion's attention to detail brings to life Don's wonderful, weird world. Instead of using Don's Asperger's syndrome as a fault, or a lead into a tragic turn of events, Simsion creates a heartwarming story of an extraordinary man learning to live in an ordinary world, and to love. As Don would say, this book is great fun. USA TodaySimsion can plot a story, set a scene, write a sentence, finesse a detail. A pity more popular fiction isnt this well-written. . . .A sparkling, laugh-out-loud novel. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)This good-hearted, pacy, thoroughly enjoyable novel takes a significant step towards showing that all human variants are a potential source of life affirming comedy. The GuardianSeldom have the qualities of being loveable while consistently exasperating everybody around you been more skillfully balanced in a fictional character. The comparison with the (excellent) One Day sells Simsion short, if anything. a very funny and touching love story, which provides a sympathetic insight into a much-misunderstood condition. - Sunday Express The Rosie Project is 1930s screwball comedy updated for 2013. Hepburn and Grant in Bringing Up Baby, or Rosalind Russell and Grat in His Girl Friday have the exact same pitch, intelligence, wit and farce with a love story at the centre of it all. Madcap indeed, but like those films The Rosie Project underscored with writing meticulously judged. Simsion is in his 50s and it is astonishing that this is his first novel, although he has said he worked on it for years. It shows. This is hand-polished writing. The novel has already been sold internationally into more than 30 countries, a success before it was published here. Extremely loud and incredibly long applause. - Age/SMH/Canberra Times/Brisbane TimesIrresistibly charming, genuinely funny and cleverly plotted this is intelligent romance for grown ups whose arteries have not hardened with cynicism. - BooktopiaOne of the quirkiest, most adorable novels I've come across...This is a fresh, funny story, written with verve and great timing. Is it politically correct to joke about Asberger's Syndrome? I suspect not, but Simsion pulls it off anyway, partly because the book has so much heart but mainly because Don Tillman is such a fantastic, lovable, geeky character that you're cheering for him from page one...I loved The Rosie Project. It's an entertaining read from start to finish, thoughtful and fun, very different and utterly charming - a brilliant first novel from a mature, clever writer. If you ask me, we should lay claim to Graeme Simsion and let Australia keep Russell Crowe - NZ Herald on SundayWhat an endearing, funny book...a quirky love story about belonging with poignant undertones on the need for us all to be more tolerant of those with differences. A must read for 2013. - Courier Mail/Daily TelegraphAs you start reading this extraordinary work, there's no doubt that unlikely hero Don Tillamn is about to take the world if not by storm, certainly by rational argument....Laugh-out loud funny, poignant and so ingenious and compelling you feel as if you want to jump into the world of the novel and join in. In Don's confessionals, there are echoes of Bridget Jones, writer Nick Hornby and Amelie in the French movie hit. Also, of course, Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets comes to mind, which Simsion references, but essentially Don Tillman is utterly and beautifully unique and, be warned, you will fall in love with him. - Australian Women's Weekly