Clever, funny, poignant, and written with Haig’s trademark blend of crystalline prose and deft storytelling, this is a book that stirs the heart and mind in equal measure. “Matt Haig’s latest book, How To Stop Time, is marvelous in every sense of the word. Stephanie Coleman, Director of Buying at Tattered Cover Times may change, but people do not, and it is Haig’s simple, yet stingingly honest assessment of time and life’s limits that makes How to Stop Time a difficult novel to forget. This is a novel full of life’s big questions and Matt Haig writes them in such an imaginative and convincing way, reminding us that there will always be the light and the dark of the human condition. That’s when he meets Rose, falls in love, and discovers a mysterious connection between his past and his present. He moves to his hometown in present day London, haunted by memories of his past. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Tom seeks to live an ordinary life. After centuries of changing identity and encountering those like William Shakespeare and F. Second Rule: You’re not permitted to leave. Those like Tom are protected by The Albatross Society. He has a genetic disorder which will only allow him to age one year for every fifteen human years. Karen Briggs, The Booknook, East Tawas, MI Matt Haig has written classics for children now he has written one for adults that book clubs will savor.”

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald leave him wanting an ordinary life, but, fearing falling in love and forming close friendships he will inevitably lose, Tom comes to realize a universal truth: real companionship is essential for life to be lived. “Tom Hazard, born well over 400 years ago, ages just one year for every 15 he lives-is it a blessing or a curse? Encounters with Shakespeare, Captain Cook, and F. Luisa Smith, Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA Summer 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List Scenes both familiar and exotic thrum with life, but the real magic is in how he makes us believe in this 439-year-old man who is only now learning how to live.”

Matt Haig takes us from Shakespeare's London to the Roaring Twenties in Paris, from conquering the new world with Captain Cook to present-day Los Angeles.

He has also discovered that time without the people we love loses all meaning. Tom Hazard ages very slowly, so slowly that nothing feels new to him as memories from the past crowd every moment of his present.

“Both incredibly poignant and unceasingly charming, How to Stop Time is the story of a man who has an abundance of time and a scarcity of love.

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