How to Stop Time

Name: How to Stop Time
Rating: 4.558558464050293 (111 reviews)

Matt Haig

Jul 2017 · Canongate Books

4.6

111 reviews

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352

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*Pre-order Matt Haig’s new novel The Life Impossible now*

If you loved The Midnight Library, read How to Stop Time next!

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?

Ratings and reviews

4.6

111 reviews

Tina Montaut

August 12, 2017

Superficial with a rushed ending and nowhere near as good as other books by the same author. I can't believe a film is being made of this book rather than The Humans......

2 people found this review helpful

Abdullah Khan

December 15, 2020

It's a good book but ending is kinda rushed and there is no character development for the main antagonist. I feel like there is more story to tell. Overall it really feels like you are living history. Definitely worth the read.

1 person found this review helpful

Stephen Pugh

November 26, 2017

Matt Haig became my favourite author after reading The Last Family In England. Then read The Radleys (brilliant), The Humans (best book I'd ever read at the time) and Echo Boy (fantastically different) before reading the autobiographical 'Reasons To Stay Alive' (life-changing). But now Haig has surpassed himself and, for me, is the greatest living writer of fiction. 'How To Stop Time' is both devastating and exhilarating. It's a phenomenal book and should be read by everybody!

15 people found this review helpful

About the author

Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive, Notes on a Nervous Planet and seven highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. The Midnight Library was an instant bestseller and a BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club pick and was winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction 2020. It has become a worldwide phenomenon and multi-million copy bestseller. The audiobook is read by Carey Mulligan.

Haig also writes award-winning books for children, including A Boy Called Christmas, which has been made into a feature film with an all-star cast. He has sold more than three million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over fifty languages.

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