A first-date dud, socially awkward and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, genetics professor Don Tillman has given up on love, until a chance encounter gives him an idea.

He will design a questionnaire—a sixteen-page, scientifically researched questionnaire—to uncover the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker or a late-arriver. Rosie is all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent, strangely beguiling, and looking for her biological father a search that a DNA expert might just be able to help her with.

The Rosie Project is a romantic comedy like no other. It is arrestingly endearing and entirely unconventional, and it will make you want to drink cocktails.

Praise for The Rosie Project

A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

A national and international bestseller

#1 Indie Next Pick (US)

#1 Library Reads Pick (US)

'Funny and heartwarming, a gem of a book.' – Marian Keyes

"Don Tillman helps us believe in possibility, makes us proud to be human beings, and the bonus is this: he keeps us laughing like hell. I'd love to have a beer with the humane and hilarious Graeme Simsion." - Matthew Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook

'I absolutely loved The Rosie Project—original and clever, and perfectly written. The world is going to fall in love with Don and Rosie and I can't wait for that to happen.' — Jill Mansell, author of To the Moon and Back

"The Rosie Project is the best, most honestly told love story I've read in a long time." — Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of Fly Away and Home Front