How many lifetimes does it take to learn how to live
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher,but he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris,from New York to the South Seas,Tom has seen it all. As long as he keeps changing his identity,he can stay one step ahead of his past - and stay alive. The only thing he must not do is fall in love.
But what if the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781838858476Number of pages: 352Weight: 236 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mmEdition: Main
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'A rollicking time-hopping fantasy...How to Stop Time will provoke wonder and delight.'- TheObserver
'Hugely entertaining.'- John Boyne, Irish Times
'Outlandish...heartwarming,perceptive prose.'- 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.'- TheGuardian
'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
'My favourite book of this year,and most others. A dazzling read. Time stopped still.'- Danny Wallace
'Matt Haig is a writer for children and adults who is adept at digging into the human heart.'- TheSunday Times
'Full of Haig's trademark humour and humanity. It is a wonderfully entertaining ride through centuries of adventure with a gloriously heart-warming message. A must read.'- Sunday Mirror
'Halt everything to read Matt Haig's How to Stop Time...A tale that makes you fall in love with reading all over again.'- The Sun
'An ambitious plot is deftly handled in this exquisitely written novel. A joy!'- Heat Magazine
'Engrossing...A book to relish.'- Metro
'An exploration of how to make peace with one's past in a world where time seems to rush past faster than ever.'- Sunday Post
'The narrator is 400 years old,but the sardonic asides give this pacy novel a modern twist. Matt Haig has designs on our heartstrings...The energy and zip of this book are hard to resist.'- Hermione Eyre, Guardian
'A refreshing exploration of how to make peace with one's past selves.'- The Herald
'Goodness. What a stunning book. Brilliant,beautiful and mindbendingly magnificent.'- Jill Mansell
'A love story for the ages...A fresh spin on familiar ideas and,at its best,gets to the heart of what defines us as human'- iNews
Matt Haig
An author who blurs the lines between genres,blending fantasy,myth and science fiction to create some of the most inventive and enduringly popular contemporary fiction,Matt Haig is also amongst Waterstones bookseller's favourite authors. His novels include How to Stop Time,The Radleys and The Humans as well as children's books including A Boy Called Christmas and The Girl Who Saved Christmas. He is also the author of the Sunday Times bestseller and Waterstones non-fiction Book of the Month,Reasons to Stay Aliveand the follow up, Notes on a Nervous Planet.
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