How To Stop Time

By (author) Haig Matt
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The Sunday Times top ten bestseller from the author of The Midnight Library and The Humans
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*THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN, Matt Haig''s new novel from the world of The Midnight Library, is out 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?

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A rollicking time-hopping fantasy . . . How to Stop Time will provoke wonder and delight
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Hugely entertaining
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Outlandish . . . heartwarming, perceptive prose
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An imaginative, ambitious novel by an author with an infectious passion for history and the human condition
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Haig writes exquisitely from the perspective of the heart-sore outsider, but at their most moving his novels reveal the unbearable beauty of ordinary life
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Let Matt Haig take you on a journey . . . Brings every era to vibrant life . . . original and fascinating
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Tear-jerking, time-hopping romance
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A fabulous book
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How to Stop Time is a beautiful, and necessary book. I feel very lucky to have read it. It is magical, intriguing and at times, very sad. A triumph
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Absolutely terrific
Biographical note:

Matt Haig has written a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction. This includes the novels The Humans, How to Stop Time and The Midnight Library, several children''s books and most recently the self-help book The Comfort Book.

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