# Machines Like Me

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- Book: [Machines Like Me](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcewan/machines-like-me) ([Machines Like Me.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcewan/machines-like-me.md))
- Authors: [Ian McEwan](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-mcewan)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-15-2911-125-5
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2023-06-08
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

**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