Author: Graeme Simsion
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: S&S / Marysue Rucci Books, 2014
Pages: 320
Rating: Recommend
Synopsis: 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.
Rose Jarman possesses all these qualities. Don easily disqualifies her as a candidate on 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.
Review: In some ways this novel reminded me of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Once you give yourself over to the quirky characters, it is enjoyable reading (or listening). I opted to listen.
This was a hot book when it was first published, but I didn't jump on the bandwagon then. I'm glad I gave it a chance when I saw it on the audiobook shelf at my local library.
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