A novel about love, loss and living in the moment, from the bestselling author of The Humans The first rule is that you dont fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary forty-one-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, hes been alive for centuries. From Shakespeares England to Jazz Age Paris to voyaging the Pacific alongside Captain Cook, Tom has seen a lot, and he now craves an ordinary life.Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect coverworking as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if hed never witnessed them first-hand. He can try to tame the past that is quickly catching up with him. The only thing Tom cant do is fall in love.How to Stop Timeis a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling story about losing and finding yourself, about the certainty of change, about the mistakes humans are doomed to repeat.And about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.
| ISBN: | 9781443451406 |
| Publication date: | 6th February 2018 |
| Author: | Matt Haig |
| Publisher: | HarperAvenue |
| Format: | Ebook |
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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A novel about love, loss and living in the moment, from the bestselling author of The Humans The first rule is that you dont fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary forty-one-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, hes been alive for centuries. From Shakespeares England to Jazz Age Paris to voyaging the Pacific alongside Captain Cook, Tom has seen a lot, and he now craves an ordinary life.Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect coverworking as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if hed never witnessed them first-hand. He can try to tame the past that is quickly catching up with him. The only thing Tom cant do is fall in love.How to Stop Timeis a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling story about losing and finding yourself, about the certainty of change, about the mistakes humans are doomed to repeat.And about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.
How To Stop Time features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
How To Stop Time is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback
How To Stop Time was written by Matt Haig and published by HarperAvenue
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