WINNER OF THE 2025 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDA TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTHA GUARDIAN SCI-FI BOOK OF THE MONTHA JIMMY FALLON SPRING FAVOURITEA HARPER''S BAZAAR ''BEST BOOK OF 2024''AUDIBLE BEST OF THE MONTHAMAZON ''BEST OF MARCH'' PICKESQUIRE''S ''BEST BOOKS OF 2024 (SO FAR)''A ''MOST ANTICIPATED NOVEL'' FOR GOODREADS AND READER''S DIGESTShe''s human in every way that matters.Annie is the perfect girlfriend. She has dinner ready for Doug every night, wears the outfits he buys for her, and caters to his every sexual whim. Maybe her cleaning isn’t always good enough, but she’s trying really hard.She was designed that way, after all.Because Annie is a robot. But what happens when she starts to rebel against her stifled existence and imagine the impossible – a life without Doug?‘Intense, compelling’ GUARDIAN''Barbie for girls who like Aphex Twin'' SHEENA PATEL''An exquisitely written, empathetic novel that asks what it really means to be human’ RED‘A smart dive into big questions about identity, autonomy and power… packs an impressive punch’ THE TIMES, Book of the Month‘Slyly profound… gripping’ NEW YORK TIMES''A Frankenstein for the digital age'' ESQUIRE''A compelling story of power, consent and control in the age of AI’ GRAZIA