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.
