{"product_id":"9781529111255","title":"Machines Like Me - Ian McEwan","description":"\u003cp\u003e**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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ian McEwan","offers":[{"title":"320 pages \/ 05\/03\/2020 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56969941287287,"sku":"9781529111255","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781529111255_37bace44-e8ba-4d31-91a4-806bffac0587.jpg?v=1780994922","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781529111255","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}