Having recently moved to Melbourne, Don, Rosie and Hudson are at the top of the life-contentment graph -but not for long. Don gets into serious trouble after a lecture exercise is misunderstood, Rosie battles her uncompromising boss at work, and Hudson has trouble fitting in and making friends at his new school. The first few sentences of the book already perfectly summarise the slightly chaotic, incredibly comic and also complicated world of the Tillman family.
Similar to books such as OVE and The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, this is book is funny and serious at once. Focusing on Don’s and Hudson’s experiences, the book also discusses society’s treatment of people who don’t ‘fit in’ at every level, and the way these ‘misfits’ try to function in a society not made for them, through various coping-mechanisms. Over the course of the book, relationships and friendships are tested, the usefulness of labels is discussed and many flawlessly mixed cocktails are poured.
I enjoyed reading the book, though I wasn’t ‘hooked’ right away. It’s a nice and relatively quick read for a quiet night in or a holiday. My rating is closer to 3.5 stars.

When his wife Rosie gets a job back in Melbourne Don Tillman has to uproot his family from New York and return to his home town. Son Hudson finds it hard to settle into school and then Don makes an error judgement in a lecture that means that suddenly he has a lot of time on his hands, thus begins the Hudson Project. Determined not to have Hudson labelled 'autistic' Don initiates a programme designed to help his son fit in, aided and abetted by a motley crew of friends and whilst setting up the ideal bar.
It's great that Simsion has chosen to return to Don and Rosie in this book, I missed them! Don is one of the most endearing characters in modern fiction and his love for Rosie and his son shine through the book. I love the fact that several fabulous characters from the previous novels appear here alongside a few new ones including a voice for Hudson. Simsion is a great comic writer but his books are always underpinned with genuine warmth and this is no exception.

I was eager to go along for the further adventures of Don Tillman after The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect, but this final book in the trilogy ultimately felt sort of unnecessary (and endless at nearly 400 pages). Don and Rosie have returned to Australia with their son Hudson, now 11 years old. Hudson is a lot like his dad, which means they both get into sticky situations that could have been avoided with better social skills and more tact. Don takes a career break to help Hudson adjust to his new school and make some friends. While I liked how Simsion tackles the question of an autism diagnosis head-on in this novel instead of sidling past it as previously, it also means that the story somehow feels constrained by both stereotypes and political correctness (if that’s not a paradox). Rosie is no more than a background character. The greatest pleasure is still to be had from the way Don speaks and narrates his thinking process, but the bar venture is also fun, and Hudson’s best friend being raised by anti-vaxxers who distrust traditional medicine is a canny example of how science can bust superstitions.

I believe this is the third and final book in the Don Tilman series. The three books cover a 12 year period and start with Don getting a wife, getting married, having a baby, separating and getting back together to raise their child. This is no ordinary story and deals very light heartedly with a serious topic and some unconventional behaviours.
This third book is a fitting end and perhaps the best of the three.
In reading it would be easy to be judgemental and give reasons for the behaviours of this little family unit but that would be very unfair and I dont think intended.
The book is cheerful and has humour and in many ways it is easy to identify with the characters, yet in the background it gives rise to deeper thought and understanding.
I am sorry that is the last book about Don, Rosie and Hudson but to me they are now part of the real world.
I recommend these books to anyone as it shouldn't pin-holed in anyway.

I loved The Rosie Project, so was disappointed when The Rosie Result didn't meet the same standard. However, the author is back on form with The Rosie Result, v which concentrates on Rosie and Don's son, Hudson. Sensitive, funny and eye-opening, I enjoyed this and for much more engaged with the new characters.

I struggled to get into The Rosie Result, perhaps if I’d read the other books I might have enjoyed it better but I couldn’t get into it. Sadly I gave up on it.

I am afraid this doesn’t stand up to the Rosie Project which I absolutely adored. Maybe I am not in the right place at the moment, but I woul be really enjoying it at one sitting to not caring one iota at the next. I will try again at some point in

Didn't really like this story and could not get into it. I made myself finish this book even though I did not want to.

This final instalment was the perfect rounding off to what’s been a thoroughly enjoyable, heartwarming series. We’ve followed Don from a geeky, relatively isolated 40-year-old virgin professor to an established family man and entrepreneur with a close, supportive network of friends around him. This final instalment also delves a little deeper into the topic of autism, a theme which has lingered in the background of all the novels and is finally tackled head-on.

The Rosie Result begins ten years after the last instalment, The Rosie Effect. Rosie and Don are back in Australia and their son, Hudson, is having problems at school, forcing Don to think back to his own adolescent years.

This novel is a lot less about the titular character Rosie, which was a bit of a shame as I love the couple’s relationship, but it instead focuses on the father-son relationship and there’s plenty of parallels between the two of them. Don constructs a Hudson Project to help his Hudson develop the social skills Don himself lacked at the same age, but is that really what his son needs from his father?

There’s the usual laugh-out-loud moments I’ve come to expect from this excellent series, as well as some touching and thought-provoking ones too. Ultimately the book and the series is about the strength of relationships, friendships and family and about how you don’t necessarily have to conform to the norm in order to find your place in the world. It’s an adorable, heart-warming series, and while I still think The Rosie Project was the strongest of the three, this conclusion rounded it off perfectly.

I wanted to love this book, like I loved The Rosie Project. But sadly it just doesn't pack the same punch: it's trying too hard to be the Hollywood-esque feel-good novel with the happy ending and redemption and all the plot threads tied up in a neat little bow.

A lot of the action takes place through Don's retelling instead of the action being told directly on the page, and that makes for a limp, unengaging novel and it's a real shame when the first one was so good.

You get thrown right back into the world of Don and it was as if you hadn't left. There were some laugh out loud moments and some heart-tugging moments. And a lot of autistic rights conversations, which I've never had before and felt like I learnt a lot from this book.

Let’s just say Don is a really special man. I was totally gripped by his life while he was in the process of meeting and wooing the Rosie of the title and, although I quite liked the second volume, it wasn’t quite as enthralling. It may have been the whole Jane Austen thing – the best book is the one that leads up to the wedding, not one that tells you what happens after – but the personalities of Don, Rosie and their various friends and colleagues were enough to keep me reading. This third book, however, introduces us to a brand-new personality Hudson, Don and Rosie’s son and he is just as special as his parents. Hudson is eleven and in his final year at primary school – always a tricky time of a child’s life when decisions about what secondary school to choose raises its head for parents and the youngsters themselves are starting to work out who they actually want to be. For Hudson there is the additional problem of having to move from New York to Australia – like most boys his age he resists change and this is a big one: the resulting issues at school lead Don and Rosie to have to consider whether their son may be autistic. Don decides to take a sabbatical from his job (and, after a controversy in one of his genetics lectures, his employers are only too happy to offer one) and focus on ‘the Hudson Project’. In the process of this work the family learns much about the education system and how it deals with autism, how those with autism see themselves versus how they are seen by others and how to deal with loss, friendship and change.

This book may not have as many of the laugh-out-loud moments that the first book had but I was fascinated by the story and very involved in finding out how parents deal with this kind of issue. Don and Rosie are a very special couple so their approach may not be the one many would choose: because their son is both as wonderful as they are and also far more in tune with the modern world we eventually find that his own solutions make the most sense. This is a book with a huge amount of warmth and a clear-eyed view of the situations faced by families all over the world.

A satisfying close to the trilogy. Warm and affectionate but probing and funny. A good read, best enjoyed if you have started with The Rosie Project and The Rosie Result but will also read fine as a stand alone work too. Graeme Simsion draws you in early and the protagonists are immensely likeable and believable.

This is the third in a series, however I hadn't read the previous two books and was unaware of this fact, which means the book can easily be read as a stand alone.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book, a light touch on some very difficult and touching icidences covering autism/ disfunctional relaitionships and ways to handle these.
The main character Don and his wife Rosie have to deal with their son who is having difficulty fitting in at school, we see the story and the situation from all three characters' points of view. The value of official diagnosis is raised and its benefits questioned.
The story is poignant and believable. We quickly realise that the adults in the situation are not your average parent either. Read and enjoy.
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I still remember how I felt having read The Rosie Result for the first time and Graeme Simsion does not disappoint with this third instalment of the series. Thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it - it's written in such a way that feels like you are somehow catching up with an old friend.

Simsion carefully handles many delicate and serious issues very well, tugging on emotions in subtle ways and taking you on a journey with his characters. We can all relate to struggles of 'fitting in' no matter the environment and this is a theme which plays out in various ways throughout the book.

This is a must read for fans of the Don Tillman series, and carries a great message about embracing yourself and others as they are. All in all it is so beautifully executed I was very sad when it had come to an end!

Oh, the bliss of a third Rosie story! If you have read The Rosie Project and its sequel, The Rosie Effect, you won’t need to know more than this latest novel in the series is out now – and it’s excellent.

True to the joys of the previous novels, The Rosie Result doesn't disappoint. Now back in Australia, this beautiful family is faced with a whole new set of challenges, as they seek to fathom a course for raising their son, who is really rather like his father.

As usual, misconceptions and misunderstandings lead to potential disaster, always narrowly averted and resulting in the perfect ending.

More, please!

Hadn't realised this was part of a series so had to go find the rest before reading this. Loved it and would highly recommend the reading of the whole series. Thank you net galley for this opportunity

What a fitting conclusion to the trilogy surrounding Don Tillman and his family and friends! I enjoyed this book at least as much as 'The Rosie Project'. There is something very endearing about Don, Rosie and now Hudson and how their relationship ebbs and flows. It was portrayed in a realistic way, yet it was moving and humorous. You couldn't help but root for Don and his adult challenges as well as Hudson and his trying to navigate school life and social interactions, all of these taking place with the autistic dimension in the background.

Thank you to the publisher and to Netgalley for providing me with an e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest and impartial review.

Oh how I've missed Don! I thoroughly enjoyed the conclusion to this series; Don and Rosie are still married and now we have Hudson in the mix, their 10 year old son who is a chip off the old block. He's having trouble at school, Don is in trouble at work and Rosie is up against it at her job. Can they (scientifically) figure out a way to solve all their problems? I love the dynamics between the characters; Don's voice is so distinctive, reading this was like getting back in touch with an old friend. Funny, thought provoking and entertaining, just a flipping good read.

I was worried the first book couldn’t be followed and didn’t read the second. I was not disappointed by this one, though I started to feel it was overly long towards the end. If you liked the first this will not disappoint, in fact, I liked the plot better.