The Last Generation

If you were offered the chance to live forever, would you vote for it? 

In a world where inequality is rife and healthcare is a privilege rather than a right, a bold new movement promises everyone longer, healthier lives. The price? No more children. After all, if this generation can live forever, why would we need the next?

For widowed father William Scott, the offer of renewed youth is too good to resist. For his daughter Lani, a care-home nurse struggling to build the future she was sold, it is another example of her generation being sacrificed so the older one can live well.

As the radical health programme of implants, mandated exercise, and prescribed meals is rolled out by a tech billionaire and a populist politician, the dream of immortality gives way to a world of surveillance, coercion and punishment. 

With the consequences of their choices, and the motives of those in charge becoming impossible to ignore, William and Lani must confront what they are willing to sacrifice for a better life – and for each other.