Machines Like MeIan McEwanLabel: VintageDescription: **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
