How to Stop Time
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By Matt Haig
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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. 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.
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This was Gloucester Book Group’s September read. It’s an easy read and an interesting idea to live a life spanning several hundred years and begs the question, would you really want to? The book for me was weak in some areas mainly around the degree I had to suspend my disbelief about Tom meeting so many famous characters through the ages. Our group had mixed opinions with some loving it and some not. Not a book that will stay in my memory I’m afraid.
I like the idea of this book. There is some interesting philosophical ideas and quotable sentences. But on the whole, for me, it was just ok.
