The unspoken implication in the first book is that Don is on the autistic spectrum. And anyway, there’s the small distracting matter of an accident with an oyster knife in the opening scene. However it’s so easy to readjust to Don’s singular view of the world that I didn’t question the appearance of Hudson, fully formed, aged 10 and objecting to the family’s imminent relocation back to Australia. The second, The Rosie Effect, continues on directly from the first, and details the birth and early years of Don and Rosie’s son, Hudson. When I picked up The Rosie Result – eagerly, as I’d very much enjoyed The Rosie Project – I didn’t realise that this was actually the third in the series. The book ends with wedding bells, and Don and Rosie moving from Australia to America. Against the odds, a strong mutual attraction develops, Rosie proving a perfect, intuitive mediator in the situations created by Don’s social awkwardness. To cut a long and entertaining story short, he meets a woman who fulfils none of the criteria in his 16-page questionnaire but who needs his help with a quest of her own. He first burst out of the genetics lab and on to the page in 2013 in The Rosie Project, in which he decides – aged 39 – that it’s time to tackle the search for a compatible life partner scientifically. The king of geeks, Don Tillman, is surely one of the most recognisable, distinctive narrators in modern fiction. Subscribe to our magazine for more great content
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