“New” may be relative. Published in 2013, The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a title that needs to be added to your book list if you missed it. This book combines humor and romance in a quirky format that will keep you turning the pages.
Now, we’re just waiting for the film. It’s currently “in development” and has been for some time – boo! Comments about this book are welcome 🙂
Book summary – from publisher Simon and Schuster
The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers.
Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities. Don easily disqualifies her as a candidate for The Wife Project (even if she is “quite intelligent for a barmaid”). But Don is intrigued by Rosie’s own quest to identify her biological father. When an unlikely relationship develops as they collaborate on The Father Project, Don is forced to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie―and the realization that, despite your best scientific efforts, you don’t find love, it finds you.