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Who Wants to Live Forever by Hanna Thomas Uose

What happens to loving each other forever when your soulmate decides living forever is more important?

“The best book I’ve read this year”
— Aja Barber, contributing editor at ELLE
“‘Dazzling: a cold hard reckoning with reality; a constantly surprising feat of imagination, philosophy, humanity, warmth and love.’”
— Jessica Stanley , author of forthcoming CONSIDER YOURSELF KISSED

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 In 2022, she won the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour, was shortlisted for Orion and DHA's Space to Write Project and was selected for the Asian Women Writers mentorship programme.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”
— Iain Russell Hseih
“A timeless romance and a bold, inventive novel”
— Ela Lee author of Jaded
“A beautifully written book with a genius concept ”
— Louise Hare
“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.”
— Lisa Owens author of Not Working and forthcoming Natural Disaster
“This is a must-read book for 2025, especially for fans of Gabrielle Zevin and Kim Stanley Robinson. ”
— Julianne Pachico

For further information please contact:

EMMA FINNIGAN PR

07870 210468 | emma@emmafinniganpr.co.uk | www.emmafinniganpr.co.uk

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Stone Blind: Medusa’s Story by Natalie Haynes

'Witty, gripping, ruthless' – Margaret Atwood via Twitter

'Beautiful and moving' – Neil Gaiman

‘A fierce feminist exploration of female rage, written with wit and empathy’ – Glamour

‘Haynes’ clever, empathetic writing transforms Medusa from Gorgon into a girl, who’s a victim of the cruel machinations of the gods and of circumstance.’ – Red

‘brilliant and compellingly readable.’ – Observer

‘feminist, funny and thought provoking.’ – Mail on Sunday

‘Stone Blind is inventive and playful. There is a debt to Aristophanes; the depiction of the absurdities of the bickering gods is very funny’ – Times

‘With wit, humanity and extraordinary imagination, Haynes breathes life and meaning into myths as she has done so brilliantly before.’ – iPaper

Stone Blind

Medusa’s Story

by Natalie Haynes
Paperback / 8 June 2023 / Picador / £9.99

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023

In Stone Blind, the instant Sunday Times bestseller, Natalie Haynes brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before.

‘So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call us monsters’

Medusa is the sole mortal in a family of gods. Growing up with her Gorgon sisters, she begins to realize that she is the only one who experiences change, the only one who can be hurt.

When Poseidon commits an unforgiveable act against Medusa in the temple of Athene, the goddess takes her revenge where she can: on his victim. Medusa is changed forever – writhing snakes for hair and her gaze now turns any living creature to stone. She can look at nothing without destroying it.

Desperate to protect her beloved sisters, Medusa condemns herself to a life of shadows. Until Perseus embarks upon a quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon . . .

ABOUT NATALIE HAYNES

Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of novels THE AMBER FURY, shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize; THE CHILDREN OF JOCASTA, a feminist retelling of the Oedipus and Antigone stories; A THOUSAND SHIPS (shortlisted for the Women’s Prize), a retelling of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective and STONE BLIND a re-telling of the Medusa story (long listed for the Women’s Prize); and non-fiction books THE ANCIENT GUIDE TO MODERN LIFE and PANDORA’S JAR about the women in Greek myths. DIVINE MIGHT: GODDESSES IN GREEK MYTH will be published in September. She has written and presented seven series of the BBC Radio 4 show, NATALIES HAYNES STANDS UP FOR THE CLASSICS. In 2015, she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience.

For further information please contact:

EMMA FINNIGAN PR

07870 210468 | emma@emmafinniganpr.co.uk | @emmafinnigan | www.emmafinniganpr.co.uk

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