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How to Stop Time

  • 2017 first published
  • 336 pages
  • ★ 3.3 (10 ratings)
  • 13 editions

How to Stop Time is a 2017 novel by Matt Haig. Readers will find themes of immortality, history teachers, Immortalism and secret societies.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.3 out of 5 from 10 ratings, and 101 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 13 editions.

It runs to roughly 336 pages — 6–7 hours of reading at an average pace.

About How to Stop Time

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. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's history first hand. Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him. But the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present. How to Stop Time is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.
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Themes, setting & tropes

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Subjects

  • Immortality
  • History teachers
  • Science fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Immortalism
  • Secret societies

Quick answers

Who wrote How to Stop Time?

How to Stop Time was written by Matt Haig and first published in 2017.

How long is How to Stop Time?

The median edition has 336 pages, about 6–7 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to How to Stop Time?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Incrementalists, The Skill of Our Hands and The Darkest Passion.

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