The Rosie Effect – Graeme Simsion
I loved The Rosie Project – recommended to heaps of people and made my book club read it, so I was keen to read the next installment.
Here is the blurb …
THE ROSIE PROJECT WAS COMPLETE BUT I WAS UNPREPARED FOR THE ROSIE EFFECT.
GREETINGS. My name is Don Tillman. I am forty-one years old. I have been married to Rosie Jarman, world’s most perfect woman, for ten months and ten days.
Marriage added significant complexity to my life. When we relocated to New York City, Rosie brought three maximum-size suitcases. We abandoned the Standardised Meal System and agreed that sex should not be scheduled in advance.
Then Rosie told me we had ‘something to celebrate’, and I was faced with a challenge even greater than finding a partner.
I have attempted to follow traditional protocols and have sourced advice from all six of my friends, plus a therapist and the internet.
The result has been a web of deceit. I am now in danger of prosecution, deportation and professional disgrace.
And of losing Rosie forever.
This was great – very similar to The Rosie Project – lots of laugh out loud funny moments (like when Don decides to research children by observing them at the park!).
I enjoyed reading this novel, but it is more of the same.
More reviews …
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/08/the-rosie-effect-graeme-simsion-review