No offense to anyone, but I didn’t realize the match making   profession has evolved so much until I read Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. It seems to be very scientific now … Look at the online dating sites – they offer online forms to find you the perfect half … And do you know the speed dating services? It’s very efficient – supposedly, you can find your life-long partner in just a few minutes …

Now, our oddly charming and socially challenged hero, the genetics professor, Don Tillman embarks on his Wife Project to find him a perfect wife based on this scientific approach– all he needs to do is to develop a questionnaire and post it on the university site. Great start, but …

he is not quite sure when the Wife Project has turned into the Father Project and gets wilder and wilder without any scientific logic since Rosie Jarman appeared at his office door one day …

Hilarious and heart warming. Excellent for a fun easy read for the summer getaway! For more Adult Summer Shortlist titles, check out http://www.vaughanpl.info/src2014/adults.php.