Graeme Simsion: book signing and discussion

Blue Willow Bookshop presents Graeme Simsion on Wednesday, June 25 at 7:00pm.  He will discuss and sign his debut novel, The Rosie Project.

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.

Arrestingly endearing and entirely unconventional, Graeme Simsion's distinctive debut "navigates the choppy waters of adult relationships, both romantic and platonic, with a fresh take" (USA Today). "Filled with humor and plenty of heart, The Rosie Project is a delightful reminder that all of us, no matter how we're wired, just want to fit in" (Chicago Tribune).

About the author:
Like his protagonist, Graeme Simsion does not shy away from a challenge. Deciding at fifty to sell his successful consulting firm, he took a leap and tried his hand at writing.

Enrolling in a screenwriting course that eventually turned a script into a novel, The Rosie Project sold in heated auctions in over 35 territories. His screen adaptation of The Rosie Project won the Australian Writers Guild/Inscription Award for Best Romantic Comedy Script and has been optioned to Sony Pictures. Now a full-time novelist, Simsion has more books on the way, including a sequel: The Rosie Effect.