I’m not quite sure how successful the portrayal of Don Tillman was. Another customer has simply told us that is the only book that has made her laugh out loud all year. In fact, the review from The Guardian had mentioned a customer’s comment thatĪll teachers should be made to read it to give them a better understanding of students with this syndrome. As my daughter also has such traits, and I teach many children who display them too, I was interested. What drew me to the book were two factors: firstly, I wanted a change from the rather horror and fantasy based reading that I’ve been in recently and secondly the main protagonist, Don, has Aspergers and Autistic Spectrum traits. The predictable course of such novels progresses: obstacles appear problems are overcome wrong turns are taken… The predictable solution occurs. The main character, Don Tillsen in a genetics professor he is searching for a wife an entirely unsuitable woman, in this case the eponymous Rosie, crosses his path. It is, at heart, a romance novel which is certainly not a usual genre for me. I was browsing various book lists with a view to spending some Christmas money and The Guardian’s Independent Bookshop review of 2013 cropped up with this book.
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