Paperback. Pub Date :2014-01-16 Pages: 328 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014. this is a Frankenstein tale for our time from one of the UK's brightest new literary talents.Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine promised salvation. purging him of all memory.Now the machines are gone. declared too controversial. the side-effects too harmful. But within Beth's flat is an ever -whirring black box. She knows that memories can be put back and that she can rebuild her husband piece by piece.A Frankenstein tale for the 21st century. The Machine is a story of the indelibility of memory. the human cost of science and the horrors of love.