Brazen pre-empts Uose's 'masterful' debut novel

Brazen has pre-empted Who Wants To Live Forever, a "masterful" debut from Hanna Thomas Uose. 

Publisher Romilly Morgan acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Niki Chang at David Higham Associates. The novel will be published in spring 2025. 

Set across the UK, US and Japan, the novel looks at "zeitgeisty, chewy ideas" about what it means to live a good life and offers "scathing critiques of the socioeconomic disparity plaguing our global healthcare systems". The novel follows five people as they decide whether to take a miracle drug which stops human aging and the ramifications of their decision.

Morgan commented: "Who Wants to Live Forever is a masterful debut, stockpiled with foresight, which explores the ‘post-human’ quest for immortality. The friction between human fragility and permanence haunts Hanna’s writing and characters; why should they not live as long as their data? And what does it mean for some but not all to defy death? This book will be irresistible for fans of The Power [Little, Brown] and ’Severance’. I can’t wait for it to become flesh and bones." 

Uose added: "I am so happy and proud that my debut novel, Who Wants to Live Forever, has found a home at Brazen Books. After working on it for the last five years, I feel that I have found the perfect team to help shepherd this book into the world. I can’t wait for people to read it and to hear their take on some of the questions that the book poses, and that I have been turning over during the writing process – What makes a good life? How much time do we need to reach our potential? And what does it mean to be human?"