How To Stop Time

Want to know How To Stop Time (#726)?  Tom Hazard, the narrator of Matt Haig's novel of the same name offers a few suggestions.  After all, he's been around for a long time.  A really long time.  Tom has anageria,, a rare condition which slows down the aging process from adolescence on.  For every year that those around him age in normal terms, Tom takes roughly fifteen years to look a year older.


In this engaging novel, Tom switches back and forth in the times, places and relationships he's experienced.  It can be dangerous to appear to never age.  Tom has loved and lost only once so far in his long life.  What keeps him going now is that he has a daughter, Marion, who is like him.  He has not seen her since he left the family in Elizabethan times for their own safety, but he has been searching for her for years.


When the Albatross Society recruits him to protect his secret, its eccentric founder promises Tom to locate Marion.  All he needs to do is perform a task every eight years.  The consequences will be deadly for all who learn his secret.


For those of us who enjoy time travel stories, this is an interesting twist.  Tom Hazard has loved and lost, but he's also worked with William Shakespeare, sailed with Captain Cook and had cocktails with Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.  Is the present day the end of the line for him, or will he have a second chance at love?  You'll have to read How To Stop Time to find out.