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1838858474

How to stop time / Matt Haig.

Author: Haig, Matt, 1975-

Publication year: 2022

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Classification: Fiction

Publisher: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2022.

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 9781838858476 (pbk.) :

Notes: Originally published: 2017. Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare's England to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London school. 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 mustn't do is fall in love. 'How to Stop Time' is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling story about losing and finding yourself; about the certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are doomed to repeat. And about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.