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How To Stop Time

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How To Stop Time

Written by: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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A novel about love, loss and living in the moment, from the bestselling author of The Humans.

The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .

Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary forty-one-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 to voyaging the Pacific alongside Captain Cook, Tom has seen a lot, and he 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 quickly catching up with him. The only thing Tom can’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, about the mistakes humans are doomed to repeat.

And about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.

 Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Science Fiction Thriller & Suspense Time Travel England

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Loved the book. i thought it was a great read as we come through covid

Interesting and thought provoking. And comforting

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fascinating concept but just not for me. my mind went elsewhere every few minutes while listening.

I just couldn't finish it

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I'm a sucker for a good immortality story and this one was quite good. The Midnight Library was an absolute masterpiece of insight into the human experience.
This is my second Matt Haig book and I really like his style and voice.

Enjoyable.

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This book is a wonderful reminder of appreciating the time we have as well investing in the future through empowering our children.

The future is you. <3

I love all things Matt Haig

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Mark Meadows really brings Matt Haig’s books to life, especially this one. His ability to switch from accent to accent , voice to voice makes you forget it’s only one person speaking.

This narrator is amazing!!

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