Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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Forty-one-year-old geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date before he met Rosie. 
 
Now, living in New York City, they have survived ten months and ten days of marriage, even if Don has had to sacrifice standardized meals and embrace unscheduled sex. 
 
But then Rosie drops the mother of all bombshells. And Don must prepare for the biggest challenge of his previously ordered life - while dodging deportation, prosecution and professional disgrace. 
 
Is Don Tillman ready to become the man he always dreamed of being? Or will he revert to his old ways and risk losing Rosie for ever?

The Rosie Effect

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Meet Don Tillman. 
 
Don is getting married. 
He just doesn't know who to yet. 
But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman. 
One thing he already knows, though, is that it's not Rosie. 
Absolutely, completely, definitely not. 
 
Sometimes, though, you don't find love: love finds you...

The Rosie Project

'The phone call signalling an escalation in the Hudson Adjustment Problem came at 10:18 a.m. on a Friday . . .' 
 
Meet Don Tillman, the genetics professor with a scientific approach to everything. But he's facing a set of human dilemmas tougher than the trickiest of equations. 
 
Right now he's in professional hot water after a lecture goes viral; his wife of 4,380 days, Rosie, is about to lose the research job she loves; and - the most serious problem of all - their eleven-year-old son, Hudson, is struggling at school. He's a smart kid, but socially awkward-not fitting in. 
 
Fortunately, Don's had a lifetime's experience of not fitting in. And he's going to share his solutions with Hudson. He'll call on help from friends old and new, lock horns with the education system, and face some big questions about himself. As well as open the world's best cocktail bar. 
 
Big-hearted, hilarious and exuberantly life-affirming, The Rosie Result is a story of overcoming life's obstacles with a little love and a lot of overthinking.

The Rosie Result

The life-affirming romantic comedy from the million-copy bestselling series

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