At first, I was a little shocked, but after reading it, I had to agree. (Suffice it to say that a lone man intently observing children at play is likely to attract police attention.) In another questionable stab at understanding babies, he helps birth a calf.Īlas, none of these hijinks persuade Rosie that Don is fit to be a father, inspiring him to more desperate measures to salvage his bond with “the world’s most perfect woman.Last year, Oprah revealed the list of the top 20 greatest ever romance novels according to Goodreads Reviews, and The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion was on it. His pals aren’t much help in the fatherhood-prep department, either: Don’s philandering best friend suggests he “watch some kids” to understand how they operate, touching off The Playground Incident. This involves creating a Standardized Meal System with optimum levels of gestational nutrition for his wife, custom designing the world’s safest stroller (with baby-size helmet), and basically driving Rosie nuts.ĭon’s off-target attempts to play the role of supportive father lead Rosie to question his commitment to their child, whom he has taken to calling B.U.D. To cope, he pivots into hyper-efficient mode and launches what he calls The Baby Project. When Rosie announces she’s pregnant, Don panics - not that it takes much to disrupt his highly structured world: The book opens with the line, “Orange juice was not scheduled for Fridays.” Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, Don is discomfited by unpredictable and emotional situations, and pregnancy and parenthood have been known to create a few. In “The Rosie Effect,” Don and Rosie are married and living in New York, where he’s a professor and she’s a medical student. “ The Rosie Project” was narrated by a socially awkward geneticist named Don Tillman, who fell in love with Rosie Jarman while helping her locate her biological father. Instead, he has written another romantic comedy that’s just as smart, funny and heartwarming as the original. For his encore, “ The Rosie Effect,” Simsion could easily have lapsed into movie-sequel mode and dished up flavorless seconds.
Film rights to “The Rosie Project” - Australian Graeme Simsion’s witty 2013 bestseller about a clueless professor searching for a wife - were snapped up by Sony Pictures even before the book’s U.S.
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