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...

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Sunday Times

'Dazzling'

Guardian

'An unsettling examination of the human condition. Bold, clever'

Sunday Telegraph