Who Wants to Live Forever

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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

It's 2023 and the NHS is on the verge of being privatized. As a result, Yareta, a drug that could hold the key to immortality, is poised to enter the global market. The wonder drug's charismatic creator, Frank Walker (73 years old going on 43), believes it has the potential to be a silver bullet for humanity and the world over. By extending one's life by thirty years and possibly longer, Yareta would give every individual the chance to unlock their true potential and, as a social good, ease national health services around the world by delaying the onset of old age. It would even give us the chance to tackle the climate crisis-right

With its global sensibility and intersecting cast of unforgettable characters, WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER is poses compelling questions about what it means to live a good, fulfilled life, even as it offers scathing critiques of the socioeconomic disparity plaguing our global healthcare systems. With a masterful voice and worldbuilding, this is novel is both contemporary and timeless in its universal concerns, full of nuance and zeitgeisty, chewy ideas.

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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 In 2022, she won the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour, was shortlisted for Orion and DHA's Space to Write Project, and was selected for the Asian Women Writers mentorship programme.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.