Machines Like Me - Ian McEwan

Written by Ian McEwan
Read by Billy Howle
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 10hrs 55mins

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 occurs 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 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 – a
love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a
profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan’s subversive and
entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what
makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could
a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and
thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond
our control.