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Originally Posted by Catlady

Another good one: The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld (one of my favorite narrators), Graham Halstead, and Euan Morton.

This is being marketed as psychological suspense, which it definitely is--a riff on a basic amnesia plot--but the blurbs skirt around an element that puts a unique twist on that plot (revealed in the first few pages, but I'll use spoiler tags anyway).

Spoiler:

The narrator is an empathetic, sentient robot that has been designed as a replacement for a tech wizard's vanished wife. So in addition to the suspense, the book makes one think about artificial intelligence and the future of robotics.

Enjoyable and interesting on many levels; definitely would put this in my top ten for the year.

I guess I'd better put my question is spoiler tags too then:

Spoiler:

Would you classify this as science fiction?
By which I mean, other than the very existence of the robot, does the science or technology feature in the story in any significant way?