New Ian McEwan Novel Set for the Spring

It’s two years since the release of Ian McEwan’s last novel, Nutshell although the author has worked on several screenplays in the last year. Now it’s announced that he has an ‘audacious’ new novel at completion and it’s to be released in April next year.

Machines Like Me will be out on April 18th next year and while it doesn’t yet have any cover art, it is already available for pre-order. Machines Like Me is set in an alternative 1980s London, where Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence.

The novel will centre on two main characters, Charlie and Miranda. Charlie loves Miranda and when he comes into some money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda’s assistance they turn Adam into a near-perfect human and a love triangle forms.

Machines Like Me is set to pose some fundamental questions about what makes us human and what emotions live in the human heart.

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