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

Published 27/03/2025 | Hardback,
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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 LIVE FOREVER, a time-bending, decades-long quest for immortality catapulting you from Japan to Silicon Valley to eternity.

‘I LOVED this addictive, beautifully written novel about romance, life and immortality.’DAILY MAIL’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 PACHICOThis 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?’A beautifully written book with a genius concept’LOUISE HARE’Hanna Thomas Uose has created a fully realized future; like the best speculative fiction, this novel holds a magnifying glass to familiar horrors’ KATIE YEE’Hanna spins vivid, compelling human drama from vast philosophical questions with wit, elegance and verve’LISA OWENS’Who Wants to Live forever probes and searches like the best fiction does. Powerful. Highly compelling’IAN RUSSELL-HSIEH’The best book I have read this year’AJA BARBER’An ambitious novel expertly executed; full of twists, turns and tenderness’ ASHLEY HICKSON-LOVENCE’An urgent and timely book’SEASON BUTLER