The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love, life and lobster every Tuesday...'Marvellous' John Boyne'Original, clever and perfectly written' Jill Mansell'Adorable' Marian Keyes'An upbeat, quirky, impertinent gem of a read' Chris Cleave'I'm not good at understanding what other people want.' 'Tell me something I don't know . . .' Love isn't an exact science - but no one told Don Tillman. A thirty-nine-year-old geneticist, Don's never had a second date. So he devises the Wife Project, a scientific test to find the perfect partner. Enter Rosie - 'the world's most incompatible woman' - throwing Don's safe, ordered life into chaos. But what is this unsettling, alien emotion he's feeling? 'Don Tillman is one of the most endearing, charming and fascinating literary characters I have met in a long time' The Times'Hilarious, unlikely and heartbreaking' Easy Living'Touching and laugh-out-loud funny - think The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time meets Silver Linings Playbook' Stylist'Funny, endearing, and pure, wonderful escapism' Independent 'A sweet, funny rom-com . . . You'll be willing Don and Rosie on every step of the way' Marie Claire'Original, charming and very funny' Woman & Home 'A comic triumph: clever, humane and tears-in-your-eyes funny. But best of all, The Rosie Project is a madly romantic love story' Liz Jensen, author of The Rapture 'I couldn't put this book down. It's one of the most quirky and endearing romances I've ever read. I laughed the whole way through. And now I want to meet Don' Sophie KinsellaWith the charm of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and the romance of David Nicholls' One Day, The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is both funny and endearing - and is set to become the paperback of 2014.Graeme Simsion is a full-time writer. Previously an IT consultant and educator, he wrote his first book in 1994 (the standard reference on data modelling, now entering its fourth edition), and is married to Anne, a professor of psychiatry who writes erotic fiction. They have two children.
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'I couldn't put this book down. It's one of the most quirky and endearing romances I've ever read. I laughed the whole way through' SOPHIE KINSELLA
'Brilliant, important, good-hearted' GUARDIAN
'Original, clever and perfectly written' JILL MANSELL
'Superb. Endearing, charming and fascinating' THE TIMES
'Funny, charming and heart-warming. A gem of a novel' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
'Adorable' MARIAN KEYES
Love isn't an exact science - but no one told Don Tillman.
A thirty-nine-year-old geneticist, Don's never had a second date. So he devises the Wife Project, a scientific test to find the perfect partner.
Enter Rosie - 'the world's most incompatible woman' - throwing Don's safe, ordered life into chaos.
But what is this unsettling, alien emotion he's feeling? . . .
If you loved The Rosie Project, find out what happens next in The Rosie Effect and The Rosie Result!
'All three of the Rosie novels made me laugh out loud. Ultimately the story is about getting inside the mind and heart of someone a lot of people see as odd, and discovering that he isn't really that different from anybody else' BILL GATES
'Exuberantly life-affirming' SUNDAY TIMES
'A completely charming story that is as engaging as it is funny' INDEPENDENT
'Compulsively readable. A poignant universal story' OBSERVER
'Such a joy to read - I honestly can't think of many books that I've enjoyed more. The definition of a comfort book. It made me laugh out loud more than any book before' MARIE CLARE
'Full of quirky humour and touching tenderness. Imagine the love child of Eleanor Oliphant ad Bridget Jones and you have this book' CULTUREFLY
'Marvellous' JOHN BOYNE
'Charming and hilarious' LUXE
'Hilarious, unlikely and heartbreaking' EASY LIVING
Join the thousands of readers who have fallen in love with Don and Rosie . . .
'Touching and funny. There was not a page I turned where I was not rooting for the characters or smiling' 5* Reader Review
'Warm, wonderful and laugh out loud funny. Stays with you long after you have finished' 5* Reader Review
'Wonderful, touching, funny, very romantic. Glorious' 5* Reader Review
'Funny, poignant and original. The best romantic comedy I've read since Bridget Jones' 5* Reader Review
'Utterly, utterly brilliant! Captured my heart' 5* Reader Review
'A truly wonderful, warm-hearted story. Read it, you won't regret it!' 5* Reader Review
'If I could have given this book 6 stars, I would. Brilliant' 5* Reader Review
Autorentext
Graeme Simsion's first novel, The Rosie Project, and the sequel The Rosie Effect were both bestselling novels worldwide. The Rosie Result is the third and final Rosie installment. Graeme is also the author of the critically-acclaimed standalone novel The Best of Adam Sharp.
Zusammenfassung
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love, life and lobster every Tuesday...
'Marvellous' John Boyne
'Original, clever and perfectly written' Jill Mansell
'Adorable' Marian Keyes
'An upbeat, quirky, impertinent gem of a read' Chris Cleave
'I'm not good at understanding what other people want.'
'Tell me something I don't know . . .'
Love isn't an exact science - but no one told Don Tillman. A thirty-nine-year-old geneticist, Don's never had a second date. So he devises the Wife Project, a scientific test to find the perfect partner. Enter Rosie - 'the world's most incompatible woman' - throwing Don's safe, ordered life into chaos. But what is this unsettling, alien emotion he's feeling?
'Don Tillman is one of the most endearing, charming and fascinating literary characters I have met in a long time' The Times
'Hilarious, unlikely and heartbreaking' Easy Living
'Touching and laugh-out-loud funny - think The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time meets Silver Linings Playbook' Stylist
'Funny, endearing, and pure, wonderful escapism' Independent
'A sweet, funny rom-com . . . You'll be willing Don and Rosie on every step of the way' Marie Claire
'Original, charming and very funny' Woman & Home
'A comic triumph: clever, humane and tears-in-your-eyes funny. But best of all, The Rosie Project is a madly romantic love story' Liz Jensen, author of The Rapture
'I couldn't put this book down. It's one of the most quirky and endearing romances I've ever read. I laughed the whole way through. And now I want to meet Don' Sophie Kinsella
With the charm of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and the romance of David Nicholls' One Day, The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is both funny and endearing - and is set to become the paperback of 2014.
Graeme Simsion is a full-time writer. Previously an IT consultant and educator, he wrote his first book in 1994 (the standard reference on data modelling, now entering its fourth edition), and is married to Anne, a professor of psychiatry who writes erotic fiction. They have two children.