How to Stop Time - Hardcover

Haig, Matt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1782118616 ISBN 13: 9781782118619

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2017

Synopsis

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2017 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR POPULAR FICTIONTom 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. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life.Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London comprehensive., Here he can teach the kids about wars and witch hunts as if he'd never witnessed them first-hand. He can try to tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom must not do is fall in love.How to Stop Time is a wild and bittersweet story about losing and finding yourself, about the certainty of change and about the lifetimes it can take to really learn how to live.

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Review:

"A rollicking time-hopping fantasy . . . How to Stop Time will provoke wonder and delight" (Observer)

"Hugely entertaining" (JOHN BOYNE Irish Times)

"Outlandish . . . heartwarming, perceptive prose" (ANITA SETHI Daily Telegraph)

"An imaginative, ambitious novel by an author with an infectious passion for history and the human condition" (Sunday Express)

"Haig writes exquisitely from the perspective of the heart-sore outsider, but at their most moving his novels reveal the unbearable beauty of ordinary life" (Guardian)

"Let Matt Haig take you on a journey . . . Brings every era to vibrant life . . . original and fascinating" (Stylist)

"Tear-jerking, time-hopping romance" (Mail on Sunday)

"A fabulous book" (STEPHEN FRY)

"How to Stop Time is a beautiful, and necessary book. I feel very lucky to have read it. It is magical, intriguing and at times, very sad. A triumph" (MARIAN KEYES)

"Absolutely terrific" (GRAHAM NORTON)

Book Description:

The life-affirming new novel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1782118616
• ISBN 13: 9781782118619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336