What happens to loving each other forever when your soulmate decides living forever is more important?
“The best book I’ve read this year”
“‘Dazzling: a cold hard reckoning with reality; a constantly surprising feat of imagination, philosophy, humanity, warmth and love.’”
Who Wants to Live Forever
by Hanna Thomas Uose
PUBLISHED BY BRAZEN
27 March 2024 | Hardback | £16.99
What if you had the chance to remain at your exact age for the next thirty years? What if you could extend your life potentially forever?
Would you have a new lease on life, literally, and do the things you never thought you'd have time to do?
Would you be more or less ambitious because you knew time was on your side?
Would 'growing old together' with the person you love still mean something?
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 created which can extend a human's life, indefinitely, Sam decides to live forever, rather than love Yuki forever.
What comes next is a time-bending, decades-long, world-building epic set across the globe and narrated by an intersecting cast of characters. Who Wants to Live Forever is the greatest romance you will ever read without the happily ever after.
THE AUTHOR
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 In 2022, she won the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour, was shortlisted for Orion and DHA's Space to Write Project and was selected for the Asian Women Writers mentorship programme. She has spent the last sixteen years working in advocacy and campaigns, working with organizations such as 350.org, Free Tibet, Greenpeace International, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Level Up, Liberty, and UN Global Pulse.
X - @hannathomas / Instagram - @hannamade
Hanna is available for interview, features and events.
Talking points / feature ideas:
The quest for immortality in the modern world
How to navigate life without ‘milestones’ after the age of 40 (and when your communities diverge from those of your friends)
Young women and anti-aging procedures (and ageing and the workplace)
Why it is that men seem more obsessed with immortality
Publishing after 40
“‘Who Wants to Live Forever probes and searches like the best fiction does. Powerful. Highly compelling”
“A timeless romance and a bold, inventive novel”
“A beautifully written book with a genius concept ”
“Who Wants To Live Forever is an utterly convincing — and frighteningly plausible — vision of our very-near future. Hanna Thomas Uose spins vivid, compelling human drama from vast philosophical questions with wit, elegance and verve.”
“This is a must-read book for 2025, especially for fans of Gabrielle Zevin and Kim Stanley Robinson. ”
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