Release date - 6th February (Hardback US)
Book length - 336 pages Publisher - Viking Book Depository - www.bookdepository.com Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com I want to thank Penguin Publishing Group for providing me with a copy of this book from Edelweiss. ABOUT THE BOOK "The first rule is that you don't fall in love, ' he said... 'There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. If you stick to this you will just about be okay.'" A love story across the ages - and for the ages - about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live 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. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's history first hand. Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him. But the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present. How to Stop Time is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness. MY REVIEW Tom Hazard isn't like ordinary people no matter how desperately he wishes he was. For Tom has a rare condition which means for every fifteen years of his life he ages just one, so when we see a forty-one-year-old man he is in fact over four hundred years old. While initially, this may sound like an exciting and adventurous life to lead but as we delve into Tom's many pasts and lives we begin to realise how lonely and heartbreaking this existence is for him. 'Protected' by a secret society who demand obedience, Tom must never connect with anyone or have any close relationships and time has shown Tom how cruel it can be taking those he loved away from him. But in 2017 as Tom tries to find some semblance of a normal life working as a school teacher, he cannot help but feel something for a fellow teacher who is determined to figure him out. Moving seamlessly from past to present HOW TO STOP TIME by Matt Haig is a truly special book that makes you feel, really feel, every emotion as you turn each page. The beautiful prose is so eloquent that you are carried along with the flow of the story and even as so many parts of Tom's life will make your heart ache for him, you cannot stop admiring the words that describe his despair. HOW TO STOP TIME by Matt Haig shows us how the past can often be repeated in all of its beauty and horror, that an ordinary life is one to be cherished and appreciated, and for all intents and purposes we need to live now, love now, cry now, and be whoever we wish to be now, for nobody knows what tomorrow may bring - a truly stunning novel that will make you a Matt Haig fan for life. Author Bio: Matt Haig is a British author for children and adults. His memoir Reasons to Stay Alive was a number one bestseller, staying in the British top ten for 46 weeks. His children's book A Boy Called Christmas was a runaway hit and is translated in over 25 languages. It is being made into a film by Studio Canal and The Guardian called it an 'instant classic'. His novels for adults include the award-winning The Radleys and The Humans. He won the TV Book Club 'book of the series', and has been shortlisted for a Specsavers National Book Award. The Humans was chosen as a World Book Night title. His children's novels have won the Smarties Gold Medal, the Blue Peter Book of the Year, been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal three times. His books have received praise from Neil Gaiman, Stephen Fry, Jeanette Winterson, Joanne Harris, Patrick Ness, Ian Rankin and SJ Watson, among others. The Guardian summed up his writing as 'funny, clever and quite, quite lovely' by The Times and the New York Times called him 'a writer of great talent'. For more information: Website - www.matthaig.com Twitter - twitter.com/matthaig1 Facebook - www.facebook.com/matthaigislost/ Instagram - www.instagram.com/mattzhaig/
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