Machines Like Me
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2019
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781787331662
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Fiction, alternative history; London (england), fiction; Fiction, psychological; British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Description: Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding.

Machines Like Me takes place in an alternative 1980s London. 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 ofthe first synthetic.humans and - with Miranda's help — he designs Adam's personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong and clever. It isn't long before a love triangle forms, and these three beings confront a profound moral dilemma.

In his subversive new novel, Ian McEwan asks whether a machine can understand the human heart — or whether we are the ones who lack understanding.