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How to Stop Time

Matt Haig

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The life-affirming new novel from the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2017 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR POPULAR FICTIONTom 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.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.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
336
Publisher:
Canongate Books
ISBN:
9781782118626
Published Date:
6/7/2017
Dimensions:
214mm x 153mm x 24mm
Weight:
399g
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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RRP: £12.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781782118626

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