How to stop time
How to stop timeMatt Haig

How to stop time (2017)

Matt Haig

Creators: Mixed

Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's history first hand. Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him. But the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present. How to Stop Time is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.

ISBN:
9780525522874
Length:
336 pages

Genres: fantasy , science fiction

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Reviews3

Mixed

i felt the exact same way when i read how to stop time i felt that matt haig's writing is rough around the edges it is stodgy it is a bit limp it is it's lacking any kind of poetic depth or rhythm his metaphors are dry and not that interesting but his central conceits his ideas and his themes and his characters are always excellent

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