PublishedVintage Arrow, March 2020 |
ISBN9781529111255 |
FormatSoftcover, 320 pages |
Dimensions19.7cm × 12.9cm × 2.1cm |
Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious new novel, Machines Like Me.
Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret.
When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality.
This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - and soon a love triangle forms, which leads Charlie, Miranda and Adam to a profound moral dilemma. Can you design the perfect partner? What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives?
Provocative and moving, Machines Like Me explores whether a machine can ever truly understand the human heart.
'Funny, thought-provoking and politically acute...' Sunday Times
'Dazzling' Guardian
'An unsettling examination of the human condition. Bold, clever' Sunday Telegraph
