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How to Stop Time (Hardback)

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Hardback 336 Pages
Published: 06/07/2017

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I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but you would be very wrong.

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. 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. It’s a life he once had, long-since buried but buried secrets have a habit of catching up with you and nobody can outrun their own past.

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.

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 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 Alive.


Read a Waterstones exclusive interview with Matt Haig where he discusses How to Stop Time, as well as his bestselling memoir Reasons to Stay Alive and the pull of getting lost in time.

Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781782118619
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 535 g
Dimensions: 220 x 162 x 31 mm
Edition: Main

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“Breathtaking! A modern day Hermann Hesse.”

Tom Hazard doesn’t age. Or rather, he ages very slowly. Born in the middle ages, his mother is suspected of witchcraft to keep her son young forever. But rather than magic, it’s a condition – the opposite to Progeria,... More

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Leilah at Doncaster

“Matt Haig’s best yet…”

Please read this book. I really wanted to say that first in case you get bored of my praise for this novel. I’ll try to be concise. If you see me in the bookshop I’ll implore you further with contented sighs and... More

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Joe at Liverpool One

“Reason's to stay alive taught me lessons on how to stay alive, How to Stop Time taught me lessons on how to live. ”

I first came into contact with Matt's writing several years ago, with The Humans and have been a huge fan ever since. The Humans is a masterpiece of both fiction and science fiction and I believe Matt's... More

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