This is a first novel, written by an Australian IT geek (his previous books were about data modelling). A sequel The Rosie Effect came out at the end of 2014.
Imagine Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory but without the friends. Prof. Don Tillman is a geneticist who schedules his life minute by minute and cooks the same standardised meals each week. He knows he's different and he has very few friends but he's never been given a specific diagnosis of Aspergers or OCD.
Don hasn't had much luck with dating so he embarks on a project to find a partner, this involves women answering a 16 page questionnaire. He meets Rosie, who is beautiful but not compatible. Rosie is trying to find out who her real father is and needs the help of a geneticist. Together they embark on a hunt for her father.
It's a great story that, if made into a movie, could easily become a classic romantic comedy. Most of the jokes centre around Don not fitting in. There are scenes in expensive restaurants and Don has a special VIP card that means QANTAS never sits him next to another passenger if they can help it.
On a more serious note the author shows how Don and his friend Gene (who is a womaniser) are both jokes among the academic community and both need to change. They are both stuck in roles that they developed to survive in school and it's time for them both to grow up and change.
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