If you’re looking for sparkling entertainment along the lines of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and When Harry Met Sally, The Rosie Project is this season’s fix. 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.This rom-com is bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and intentional humor.” (A–) “Sometimes you just need a smart love story that will make anyone, man or woman, laugh out loud.” “This is a very funny book, possibly the funniest this year as Don organizes his and Rosie's life in New York…Every thought creates a smile for the reader who can't help responding to Don's comedic behavior…We can only hope the third installment is lurking around to produce another chuckle-filled triumph.” ' The Rosie Effect is a celebration of the best attributes to be found in a friend, a husband, or a father, regardless of the way they are expressed.' - Booklist (starred review) 'Don and Rosie are back!.Readers who loved the first book are in for another treat.' A sweet, entertaining, and thought-provoking book.”

It’s a funny novel that also made me think about relationships: what makes them work and how we have to keep investing time and energy to make them better. Simsion brings back some of the best characters and gags from the first novel while also bringing in enough new elements to keep it fresh. “The hilarious follow-up to The Rosie Project, one of the best novels I’ve read in ages. “Loveable science prof Don Tillman’s perfect (-ly concocted) marriage is about to hit a major bump.” Hilarity ensues…Simsion’s tale offers a playful look at a how a family of two fare when a third…enters the mix.There’s a moral to this quirky story: The best things in life can’t be planned on a spreadsheet.” “Though painfully aware of his emotional shortcomings, Don determinedly sets out to be a good dad. This charming new chapter in the Tillman chronicles leaves you hoping it won’t be the last.”

In the sequel, set in New York, Don takes on impending fatherhood in the same clumsy yet endearing way, with results both funny and moving. “In his bestselling debut, The Rosie Project, Simsion introduced the delightfully original character of Don Tillman, an Australian geneticist with Asperger’s syndrome who sets out to find the perfect wife by using the scientific method.

The rosie effect by graeme simsion