“The first rule is that you don’t fall in love,’ he said…
‘There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No
falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of
love. If you stick to this you will just about be okay.'"
A love story across the ages - and for the ages - about a
man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the
lifetimes it can take to learn how to live
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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