"Meet Don. He looks a little like Gregory Peck* and is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed The Wife Project, using a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker or a late-arriver. And it's definitely not Rosie Jarman. Absolutely, completely, definitely not."
Graeme Simsion's debut novel The Rosie Project is to be published in more than 30 countries and is already getting rave reviews from readers who know a thing or two - Marian Keyes, for example, says it's "adorable, really funny and heart-warming, a gem of a book."
It's a comedy, an ingenious novel, and it introduces us to "one of the most endearing protagonists in contemporary fiction - Don Tillman, a genetics professor who has foibles, unique insights on love and everything else, and a penchant for lobster on Tuesdays".
*I read that and - of course - I was hooked.
For me it is the lobster on Tuesdays!
Posted by: Mystica Varathapalan | 22 February 2013 at 03:05 AM
I understand that to publicise the book, some hapless chap had to dress up as a lobster!
Posted by: Cornflower | 22 February 2013 at 10:06 AM