![]() ![]() To choose a suitable wife, Don designs a detailed questionnaire that filters out unpromising candidates: women who are unpunctual, overweight, vegetarian who drink or smoke or have STDs. ![]() Gene and Claudia try to help Don find love but "unfortunately their approach was based on the traditional dating paradigm, which I had previously abandoned on the basis that the probability of success did not justify the effort and negative experiences". Friendships are rare enough: Don has a total of two – his colleague at a Melbourne university, Gene, and Gene's psychologist wife, Claudia (the pair have an open relationship, which allows Gene to pursue his ambition of sleeping with a woman from every country in the world). But is this a dark murder story or a self-help relationship tome? Well, neither: it's an endearing romantic comedy, and the narrator, professor of genetics Don Tillman (39, tall, intelligent and employed: "Logically I should be attractive to a wide range of women"), is an undiagnosed Asperger's type who Simsion uses to explore how a grown autistic man might approach a romantic relationship. A s first sentences go, "I may have found a solution to the Wife Problem" has possibilities as an instant classic. ![]()
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