Romance · Literary
The Rosie Project
A socially awkward genetics professor designs a questionnaire to find the perfect wife. Instead he meets a woman who fails every criterion and enlists his help to find her biological father.
- First published
- 2013
- Pace
- fast
- Length
- medium
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you like a literal-minded, hapless hero and a romantic comedy that is clever about its own formulas.
Skip this if you are put off by a narrator whose behaviour reads as autistic but is never named, or by neat, light-hearted resolutions.
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