How to Stop Time by Matt Haig is a novel that blends historical fiction and fantasy to explore themes of love, loss, and the passage of time through the life of a man who has lived for centuries.
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Book Blurb
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 keep one step ahead of his past – and stay alive. The only thing he must not do is fall in love . . .
Accolades
How to Stop Time became a Sunday Times bestseller and a Richard & Judy Book Club pick. It won the 2017 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Popular Fiction and received a shortlist nomination for the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year.
About the Author
Matt Haig is an author and journalist who has sold more than a million books in the UK. He’s passionate about mental health and his books often reflect that.
Matt Haig has written several nonfiction books, as well as fiction novels aimed at both children and adults. He has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal for his stories for children and young adults.
What to read next
If you enjoyed this novel, I would also recommend reading more Matt Haig books such as The Possession of Mr Cave and The Radleys. You may also enjoy Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.
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