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Who Wants to Live Forever

A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
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A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING GOOD BOOKS SPRING COLLECTION PICK 'I LOVED this addictive, beautifully written novel about romance, life and immortality.' DAILY MAIL 'Bleak yet hopeful, romantic yet lonely, this novel is both ordinary and extraordinary.' RADIO TIMES 'A concept that asks profound questions about ambition, love,... Read More
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What happens to loving each other forever when your soulmate decides living forever is more important?

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A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING GOOD BOOKS SPRING COLLECTION PICK

'I LOVED this addictive, beautifully written novel about romance, life and immortality.' DAILY MAIL

'Bleak yet hopeful, romantic yet lonely, this novel is both ordinary and extraordinary.' RADIO TIMES

'A concept that asks profound questions about ambition, love, parenthood and mortality.' GLAMOUR

'I loved it so much I wanted it to go on forever' - FERN BRADY

'Beautifully written and constructed' - HOLLY GRAMAZIO

'A timeless romance and a bold, inventive novel' - ELA LEE

'Dazzling: a cold hard reckoning with reality; a constantly surprising fear of imagination, philosophy, humanity, warmth and love' - JESSICA STANLEY

'This is a must-read book for 2025, especially for fans of Gabrielle Zevin' - JULIANNE PACHICO

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 the biggest questions of all: What is life without death? What is life without love?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781840918472

Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 March 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: BRAZEN

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 252g

Pages: 368

About 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 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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