Because she's one of the people I encouraged (forced/insisted/wrangled int0) reading 'The Humans' and she also fell in love with the book, she came to my work and dropped off the newest novel last week. One of my friends went to the London Book Fair and scored an advance copy.

You don't need me to tell you what this novel is about, that blurb is up top there, right by the book.

You know, I read a lot of reviews here on 'Goodreads' and think wow, bingo, right on, so well done! I really admire reviewers who are able to articulate what often just feels like a jumble in my own mind over a reaction to a book. Let me tell you about 'How to Stop Time.' Wait. Okay, enough about 'The Humans' and I write this as an unabashedly huge fan of the way Matt Haig puts words on paper. My ace in the hole has always been this - 'If the road gets rocky (and everyone's road gets rocky sometimes) I can re-read 'The Humans' and I'll feel that feeling again, that I'm not alone, that there is hope, that there is goodness.' So, I finished 'The Humans' and I a)wept b) started it again immediately c) spent the next two years giving it to everyone on my gift list and basically insisting everyone read it. ( From the publisher.I guess I should straight off the bat tell you what happened when I finished reading 'The Humans.' And yes, I know this is supposed to be a review about 'How to Stop Time.' Bear with me. It 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.

How to Stop Time tells 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 will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present. 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. Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him.īut the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. 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. Tom has lived history-performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. If you stick to this you will just about be okay.' ' The first rule is that you don’t fall in love,' he said… 'There are other rules too, but that is the main one.

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