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How to Stop Time

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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The Sunday Times top 10 best seller from the author of The Midnight Library and The Humans

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?

©2017 Matt Haig (P)2017 Canongate Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction

Critic Reviews

"A rollicking time-hopping fantasy... How to Stop Time will provoke wonder and delight." (Observer)
"Hugely entertaining." (John Boyne, Irish Times)
"Outlandish...heartwarming, perceptive prose." (Anita Sethi, Daily Telegraph)
"A rollicking time-hopping fantasy... How to Stop Time will provoke wonder and delight." (Observer)
"Hugely entertaining." (John Boyne, Irish Times)
"Outlandish...heartwarming, perceptive prose." (Anita Sethi, Daily Telegraph)
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Like The Midnight Library, a reminder once again to grab hold of life and live it in the here and now. Can't wait to see how Benedict Cumberbatch interprets it into a motion picture!

Another wonderful Matt Haig work

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This was a profoundly good book to listen to. funny sad and thought provoking. loved it

profoundly good

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I love a good Matt Haig book. They always make you think "What If?" I really enjoyed this story off Tom Hazzard a 439 year old man, who looks like a 40 yr old, Tom's 400 years aren't all happy ones and the story switches between now and the past, Not sure if its historically correct but I did enjoy him talking to Shakespeare.

The narrator was excellent.

What If?

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The story was ok. It was profound at times, and occasionally a bit preaching

Good story overall, but predictable

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...but not as captivating as the midnight library. The narrator did a good job, but the story lagged.

Interesting concept

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