Who Wants to Live Forever: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

by Hanna Thomas Uose

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.'
GLAMOUR

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

'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 biggest questions of What is life without death? What is life without love?

368 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 27, 2025

About the author

Hanna Thomas Uose was born in Tokyo and grew up in Essex, Birmingham and Oxford. She attended the University of East Anglia and received an MA in Prose Fiction. Prior to that, she worked in campaigns and advocacy.

Who Wants to Live Forever, her first book, was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick, a Good Housekeeping Good Books Spring Collection pick, and won the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour. She lives in London.