`I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but you would 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 Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen a lot, & now craves an ordinary life. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover
- working as a history teacher at a London comprehensive. Here he can teach the kids about wars & witch hunts as if he`d never witnessed them first-h&. He can try to tame the past that is fast catching up with him. The only thing Tom must not do is fall in love. How to Stop Time is a wild & bittersweet story about losing & finding yourself, about the certainty of change & about the lifetimes it can take to really learn how to live.