Graeme Simsion is a former IT consultant with an international reputation. His screen adaptation of The Rosie Project won the Australian Writers Guild/Inscription Award for Best Romantic Comedy Script. Simsion lives in Australia with his wife, Anne, and their two children, and is currently working on a sequel to The Rosie Project.One of Simsion's ten top difficult love stories, as shared at the Guardian:
Addition by Toni JordanRead about the other entries on the list.
The nearest thing to a sister novel to The Rosie Project: a first-person story of someone – in this case a woman – who believestheir psychological oddness will forever stand in the way of a relationship. There's a strong comedic thread, laced with wry self-awareness. Grace's obsession is with numbers and counting. Seamus comes into her life and is initially accepting – but then wants her to take medication. Addition copped some flak for finding comedy in mental illness and supposedly encouraging sufferers not to take their meds: my wife, a psychiatrist, thinks Jordan describes the dilemma pretty well.
The Page 69 Test: Addition.
My Book, The Movie: The Rosie Project.
The Page 69 Test: The Rosie Project.
--Marshal Zeringue
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