How to Stop Time

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How to Stop Time

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

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*THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN, Matt Haig's new novel from the world of The Midnight Library, is out now*

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 stay one step ahead of his past – and stay alive. The only thing he must not do is fall in love.

But what if the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him?

Matt HaigMark MeadowsCanongate Books

Contemporary Fiction

Genre Fiction

Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction

Reviews

"A rollicking time-hopping fantasy . . . How to Stop Time will provoke wonder and delight"

"Hugely entertaining" (JOHN BOYNE)

"Outlandish . . . heartwarming, perceptive prose" (ANITA SETHI)

"An imaginative, ambitious novel by an author with an infectious passion for history and the human condition"

"Haig writes exquisitely from the perspective of the heart-sore outsider, but at their most moving his novels reveal the unbearable beauty of ordinary life"

"Let Matt Haig take you on a journey . . . Brings every era to vibrant life . . . original and fascinating"

"Tear-jerking, time-hopping romance"

"A fabulous book" (STEPHEN FRY)

"How to Stop Time is a beautiful, and necessary book. I feel very lucky to have read it. It is magical, intriguing and at times, very sad. A triumph" (MARIAN KEYES)

"Absolutely terrific" (GRAHAM NORTON)

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Nice story but quite longish and repetitive. The structure of the book, going from present to past may have been a good way to support the main character’s state of mind, drowning in the past, but ends up adding heaviness to plot developments. Finally it’s a short and simple story made long. From the same author, the « Midnight Library » was more appealing to me.