Machines Like Me

Machines Like Me reminds us that McEwan is once-in-a-generation talent, offering readerly pleasure, cerebral incisiveness and an enticing imagination. * Spectator * [Machines Like Me] is right up there with his very best [novels]. Machines Like Me manages to combine the dark acidity of McEwans great early stories with the crowd-pleasing readability of his more recent work. A novel this smart oughtnt to be such fun, but it is. * Observer * Ian McEwans Machines Like Me is a dazzling account of our interaction with technology He marries a gripping plot, handled with rarefied skill and dexterity, to a deep excavation of the narrowing gap between the canny and the uncanny, leaving the reader pleasurably dizzied, and marvelling at human existence. * Independent * Compelling unforgettably strange there are many pleasures and many moments of profound disquiet in this book, which reminds you of its authors mastery of the underrated craft of storytelling [Machines Like Me] is morally complex and very disturbing, animated by a spirit of sinister and intelligent mischief that feels unique to its author. * Guardian * [McEwan's] fierce intelligence [crackles] like a Jumping Jack on Bonfire Night Arguably the finest English writer of his generation, the ideas he explores are important, now more that ever. * Daily Express *

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.