How to stop time - Matt Haig

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'I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likelyto believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but youwould be very wrong.'

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 ElizabethanEngland 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 - workingas a history teacher at a London comprehensive. Here he can teach the kidsabout wars and witch hunts as if he'd never witnessed them first-hand. He cantry to tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom mustnot do is fall in love.

How to Stop Time is a wild and bittersweet story about losing andfinding yourself, about the certainty of change and about the lifetimes it cantake to really learn how to live.