Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller In a world not quite like this one Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing has achieved an astonishing breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In an alternative 1980s London Charlie drifting through life and dodging fulltime 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 Mirandas assistance he codesigns Adams Paperback softback