Bill Gates included The Rosie Effect as the only novel in his Top Five Books for 2014. NPR praised the book for not overly romanticizing Don, for achieving a tricky balance, and for its "classic Hitchcockian suspense". No plans for a sequel have been announced.Ĭritical reception for The Rosie Effect has been mostly positive and the book was a bestseller in multiple countries. Sony Pictures optioned film rights to The Rosie Effect in September 2014. Don pursues Rosie and persuades her to return.
Don's unconventional approach alienates Rosie and eventually leads to the breakdown of their marriage. The book follows Don's attempts to prepare for parenthood and to support Rosie in her own preparation, drawing on science and the unreliable advice of his friends. Early in the story, Rosie becomes pregnant, and Don's philandering mentor, Gene, who has left his wife Claudia, comes to live with them. Don has taken up an associate professor position at Columbia University and Rosie has enrolled in a Doctor of Medicine degree while she concurrently completes the PhD. The Rosie Effect is set in New York City, where Don and Rosie have moved. In the prequel The Rosie Project, a romantic comedy novel, he met and married Rosie Jarman, a psychology PhD candidate at a university in Melbourne. The novel centres on Don Tillman, a socially awkward genetics professor, and his preparation for fatherhood.ĭon Tillman is an Australian genetics professor who probably has Asperger’s syndrome, though this is never stated explicitly. In the United States the novel was published through Simon & Schuster and in the United Kingdom through Penguin Books. International sales are more than 1 million copies. The work was first published on 24 September 2014 in Australia / New Zealand by Text Publishing and the rights have since been sold in 24 other territories. The Rosie Effect is a 2014 novel by Australian novelist Graeme Simsion and the second book of a trilogy including the previous instalment, The Rosie Project, and its sequel, The Rosie Result.
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