★★★

The protagonist of this book is called Don Tillman, a middle-aged genetic researcher from Melbourne. The book explores his goal with 'The Wife Project', to find a partner or eventually a wife, and how he goes about dating whilst also going through some other significant life events.

At the start of the story, he clearly has an extremely strict living 'regime', living from a standardised meal system, and having an tight daily schedule which leaves him not much room for flexibility or spontaneity.

The story touches on ASD (or aspergers as the book refers), but only lightly in Don's workplace and genetics research endeavours. It is clearly obvious that the main character is autistic, being a social outcast and considered 'weird' by the people around him. Although the book never explicitly states that Don is autistic.

The representation of an autistic character, especially one that is an adult, is kind of rare even nowadays, and i'd say that the book does a pretty okay job with how they represent ASD. Yes, the character is the stereotypical white male savant autism, but there are still many people who can relate to it, and it is still a story that should be told.

My favourite part of the book would be that the author's writing is immaculate. The writing is structured in a way that resembles Don's character so well, and it puts the reader into a similar mindset to him.