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How to Stop Time
AuthorMatt Haig
Original title[How to Stop Time] Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language tag: English (help)
Genrefantasy fiction, romance, history
PublisherCanongate (UK), Penguin (US)
Publication placeUK
Pages352
AwardsSunday Times Bestseller, Richard and Judy Book Club Pick
ISBN0525522891

How to stop time is a fictional novel written by English writer Matt Haig and published in 2017.

It is a Sunday Times Bestseller and is a Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.[1]

Plot summary

Tom Hazard is a high school history teacher who has just moved back to London. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but due to a rare condition, he has been alive for centuries. Tom was born in 1581 in France and has lived history alongside infamous historical characters such as Shakespeare, Captain Cook, and Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life.

As the story unfolds, Tom has to decide whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present, while constantly being under the supervision of the Albatross Society, the secretive group which claims to protect people like him. [2]

Reception

How to Stop Time received many sympathetic reviews from accredited sources including: newspapers, publishers, and other authors.

The book was described by Sunday Mirror as “a wonderfully entertaining ride through centuries of adventure. Gloriously heart-warming”. [1]

NPR considered it as “a meditation on the tick and tock of time and mortality.” [3]

On The Guardian, How to Stop Time was depicted as: “The energy and zip of this book are hard to resist” [4]

Meanwhile, a review by English writer Clare Clark on The New York Times compared the book to Matt Haig’s previous book “The Humans”. According to her, while “ “The Humans” was warmhearted, sharply observed and often laugh-out-loud funny, funny enough to forgive Haig’s alien his regrettable fondness for fortune-cookie philosophy”, [How to Stop Time] “leaving the reader craving some of the sharp-edged black humor that made “The Humans” such a delight.” [5]


Nevertheless, the film rights to the book was acquired and s motion picture is already on the process of production, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. [6]


References

  1. ^ a b Haig, Matt. "How to Stop Time". http://www.matthaig.com/. Retrieved 11 December 2019. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  2. ^ "How to Stop Time". goodreads. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  3. ^ Sheehan, Jason. "Immortality, Sadness and Drinking with Shakespeare in 'How to Stop Time'". npr.org. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  4. ^ Eyre, Hermione. "How to Stop Time by Matt Haig review - a high-concept romance". https://www.theguardian.com/. Retrieved 11 December 2019. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  5. ^ Clark, Clare. "What Would It Be Like to Be 400 Years Old?". https://www.nytimes.com/. Retrieved 11 December 2019. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  6. ^ Bell, Jacqui. "Matt Haig's How to Stop Time to be a Movie". http://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/. Retrieved 11 December 2019. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)


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