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The Rosie Project: A Novel Audiobook
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The international bestselling romantic comedy “bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and…humor,” (Entertainment Weekly) featuring the oddly charming, socially challenged genetics professor, Don, as he seeks true love.
The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers.
Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities. Don easily disqualifies her as a candidate for The Wife Project (even if she is “quite intelligent for a barmaid”). But Don is intrigued by Rosie’s own quest to identify her biological father. When an unlikely relationship develops as they collaborate on The Father Project, Don is forced to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie―and the realization that, despite your best scientific efforts, you don’t find love, it finds you.
Arrestingly endearing and entirely unconventional, Graeme Simsion’s distinctive debut “navigates the choppy waters of adult relationships, both romantic and platonic, with a fresh take” (USA TODAY). “Filled with humor and plenty of heart, The Rosie Project is a delightful reminder that all of us, no matter how we’re wired, just want to fit in” (Chicago Tribune).
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“Simsion’sattention to detail brings to life Don’s wonderful, weird world. Instead ofusing Don’s Asperger’s syndrome as a fault or a lead into a tragic turn ofevents, Simsion creates a heartwarming story of an extraordinary man learningto live in an ordinary world and to love. As Don would say, this book is ‘greatfun.’”
— USA Today
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“Don Tillman helps us believe in possibility, makes us proud to be human beings, and the bonus is this: he keeps us laughing like hell.”
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“Charming and delightful.”
— Ayelet Waldman, New York Times bestselling author -
“Move over, Sheldon Cooper. 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...bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and intentional humor.”
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“Full of heart and humor, Simsion’s debut novel about a fussy, socially challenged man’s search for the perfect wife is smart, breezy, quirky, and fun.”
— Amazon.com, editorial review -
“The Rosie Project…has been touted as a ‘publishing phenomenon,’ an ‘international sensation’…The hype is justified. Australian Graeme Simsion has written a genuinely funny novel. The Rosie Project is a classic romantic comedy.”
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“Sometimes you just need a smart love story that will make anyone, man or woman, laugh out loud.”
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“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.”
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“A sparkling, laugh-out-loud novel.”
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“Narrator Dan O’Grady deftly portrays university professor Don Tillman and the multitude of lively and interfering people around him…Audio is the best way to fully engage in and enjoy this delightful story.”
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“Don Tillman is as awkward and confusing a narrator as he is lovable and charming.”
— John Boyne, bestselling author
Awards
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Selected for the October 2013 Indie Next List
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A Los Angeles Times bestseller
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A New York Times bestseller
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A Wall Street Journal bestseller
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A USA Today bestseller
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One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2013 in Fiction
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An Amazon Top 100 Book of 2013
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One of Amazon Best Book of the Month for October 2013
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An October 2013 LibraryReads Pick
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A 2014 LibraryReads Favorites of the Favorites selection
The Rosie Project Listener Reviews
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Michele Razo, 8/27/2020
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Salley Knight, 12/14/2013
About Graeme Simsion
Graeme Simsion is a former IT consultant and the author of two nonfiction books on database design who decided, at the age of fifty, to turn his hand to fiction. His first novel, The Rosie Project, was published in 2013 and translation rights have been sold in over thirty-five languages.
About Dan O’Grady
Dan O’Grady was born in Adelaide, Australia, and resides in the United Kingdom. He is a film, television, and voice actor known for his roles in Les Soeurs Soleil, The Dark Room, and Command Approved.