Who Wants to Live Forever

'A beautifully written book with a genius concept'
Louise Hare

'Dazzling: a cold hard reckoning with reality; a constantly surprising feat of imagination, philosophy, humanity, warmth and love.'
Jessica Stanley

'The best book I have read this year'
Aja Barber

'A timeless romance and a bold, inventive novel'
Ela Lee

This is the greatest romance you will ever read without the happily ever after.

Yuki and Sam are soulmates.
They are destined to spend the rest of their lives together.
They are supposed to love one another, forever.

But when a miracle drug is released which can extend a human's life indefinitely, Sam chooses to live forever, instead of loving Yuki forever - and the world they know is spun inside out.

WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER plunges into a parallel universe where forever is on sale to the highest bidder. What comes next is a world-building epic narrated by an intersecting cast of characters that will drive you to the edge of reality and leave you to answer biggest questions of all: What is life without death? What is life without love?

What if Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow collided with Normal People in the universe of Everything Everywhere All at Once? It would spawn WHO WANTS TO LIVEFOREVER, a time-bending, decades-long quest for immortality catapulting you from Japan to Silicon Valley to eternity.

'I have devoured this novel. Not just a genius concept, this is a beautifully written book with characters so real that by the end you'll swear you'd really met them. A brilliant debut.' -- Louise Hare Author of This Lovely City
'Who Wants to Live Forever is dazzling: a cold hard reckoning with reality; a constantly surprising feat of imagination, philosophy, humanity, warmth and love.' -- Jessica Stanley author of Consider Yourself Kissed (Hutch Heinemann’s answer to Dolly A, out next year)
'The best book I have read this year' -- Aja Barber Author of Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change and Consumerism
'Both a timeless romance, and a thought-provoking exploration of the state and future of the world, Who Wants To Live Forever is a bold, inventive novel about the human experience which dares to leave the reader pondering the biggest mystery of all: the meaning of life.' -- Ela Lee Author of Jaded

Hanna Thomas Uose is a British Japanese writer living in London. In 2023, she completed the MA in Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia. In 2022, she won the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour and was shortlisted for the Orion/DHA Space to Write Project. She was also selected for the Asian Women Writers mentorship programme. Hanna has spent the last sixteen years working in advocacy and campaigns with organisations such as 350.org, Free Tibet, Greenpeace International, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Level Up, Liberty, and UN Global Pulse.

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