For Don Tillman--a brilliant, if socially awkward, genetics professor--order is a way of life. Methods, schedules, and data are his language. Until recently, Don had never had a second date.
Then he got serious about finding a life partner, created a sixteen-page questionnaire to find the perfect match, and met and fell in love with Rosie Jarman (“the world’s most incompatible woman.”) This is the story, in brief, told in the best-selling book “The Rosie Project.” Graeme Simsion continues the story in his new book “The Rosie Effect.” Now living in New York City, Don and Rosie have survived ten months and ten days of marriage. Though the fiery Rosie has taught him the joys of unscheduled sex and spontaneous meal planning, Don is still learning the principles of optimal cohabitation. He is certainly not prepared for the mother of all surprises: Rosie is unexpectedly expecting. Soon Don must face the biggest challenge of his previously regimented life--at the same time he’s dodging deportation, prosecution, and professional disgrace. Is Don ready to become the man he always dreamed of being? Or will he revert to his old ways and risk losing Rosie forever?
Graeme Simsion is a former IT consultant who decided at age fifty to turn his hand to fiction. His bestselling novel, “The Rosie Project,” has become an international phenomenon with more than a million copies copies sold worldwide, and his screenplay has been optioned by Sony Picture. He lives in Melbourne with his wife, Anne. They have two children.
Graeme Simsion will be in at the King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City on Saturday, January 17 at 7:00 p.m.
Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back. The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But they're about to face a new challenge because-- surprise!--Rosie is pregnant. Don sets about learning the protocols of becoming a father, but his unusual research style gets him into trouble with the law. Fortunately his best friend Gene is on hand to offer advice: he's left Claudia and moved in with Don and Rosie.
As Don tries to schedule time for pregnancy research, getting Gene and Claudia to reconcile, servicing the industrial refrigeration unit that occupies half his apartment, helping Dave the Baseball Fan save his business, and staying on the right side of Lydia the social worker, he almost misses the biggest problem of all: he might lose Rosie when she needs him the most.
