The Rosie Project

This international bestseller has sold over three million copies worldwide.

An extraordinarily clever, funny, and moving book about being comfortable with who you are and what you're good at. I'm sending copies to several friends and hope to re-read it later this year. This is one of the most profound novels I've read in a long time. – Bill Gates

Don Tillman 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.

Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also fiery, intelligent, and beautiful. And she is on a quest of her own to find her biological father—a search that Don, a professor of genetics, might just be able to help her with.

The Wife Project teaches Don some unexpected things: Why earlobe length is an inadequate predictor of sexual attraction. Why quick-dry clothes aren't appropriate attire in New York. Why he's never been on a second date. And why, despite your best scientific efforts, you don't find love—love finds you.

The Rosie Project has received numerous accolades:

• Winner, Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year, 2014
• Winner, Australian Book Industry Awards, General Fiction Book of the Year, 2014
• Winner, Victorian Premier's Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript, 2012
• Shortlisted, ABA Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award, 2014
• Shortlisted, Fiction Book of the Year, Indie Awards, 2014
• Shortlisted, Waverton Good Read Award, 2014
• Longlisted, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2015