The Rosie
Project
Graeme
Simsion
Simon and
Schuster 2013
295 pp
The
dead-pan voice of middle-aged Don Tillman who narrates this story creates a
deceptive simplicity to this tale. A socially challenged genetics professor,
Don is sure he will never find romance. On the few occasions when he does get a
date, it is sure to end in disaster.
However,
after being told he would make a good husband, he embarks on the Wife Project
with the same meticulous care with which he approaches all of life. When almost
at the end of his tether, into his life bursts Rosie. She is looking for the
father she has never known and has been told the professor should be able to
help.
Now he
applies his usual methodology to the Father Project, and the Wife Project is
put aside. The hilarious search for the elusive father takes Don and Rosie on a
wild ride. Because Rosie is everything that Don doesn’t want in a wife, he
never sees her as a candidate for his own project.
Of course
everyone else can see the obvious long before he does himself. Time and again Don
jeopardises his own chance for love, and you want to shout at him to open his
eyes to what is right before his eyes. The story eventually comes to a
satisfying conclusion and we can breathe a sigh of relief.
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