After he stopped ageing, people started to notice and he was found by the Albatross society. Tom takes the reader with him on his journey over the course of several centuries and in flashbacks, it’s revealed how he suffered as a child and how cruel life has been to him ever since. “To talk about memories is to live them a little.” Following a major depressive disorder at the age of 24, he wrote the book Reasons To Stay Alive based on his own experience and how he recovered and learned to live with it.įor me, it seems like Haig may even be using some of his experience in this book as well as the book reflects on topics everyone stumbles across in their lives. How To Stop Time is written by Matt Haig, a British novelist and journalist of both fiction and non-fiction. Or, if not, everything is going to be, so let’s not worry.” But what happens if your heart does not care and is following its own way? The rule is to not get attached to one life and to never ever fall in love. Due to an extremely rare condition, he does not age as humans usually do and because of that he is alive for centuries.Įvery couple of years he has to change his identity to not get exposed. However, no one knows about his life, his secret. Tom Hazard is a young man starting his new job as a high school history teacher. And then you come across a year, or even a day, or an afternoon. Some days – some years – some decades – are empty. “That’s the thing with time, isn’t it? It’s not all the same.
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