How to Stop Time: The Illustrated Edition - Hardcover

Matt Haig

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786893177 ISBN 13: 9781786893178

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2017

Synopsis

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, and 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 and witch hunts as if he'd never witnessed them first-hand. 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 and bittersweet story about losing and finding yourself, about the certainty of change and about the lifetimes it can take to really learn how to live.

This special Illustrated Edition features over fifty enchanting line drawings by the award-winning artist Chris Riddell

About this title

About the Author

Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and seven other highly acclaimed books for adults, including How to Stop Time, a Sunday Times bestseller, and The Humans. His work has been published in forty languages. @matthaig1 | matthaig.com Illustrator Chris Riddell is a Costa prize-winning illustrator, author and former Children's Laureate. He has worked as a political cartoonist for the Economist, the Independent and the Observer. He has illustrated an exceptional range of books and also writes and creates his own books, such as the highly-acclaimed Ottoline series and the Costa prize-winning Goth Girl series. @chrisriddell50 | chrisriddell.co.uk

Review

A rollicking time-hopping fantasy . . . How to Stop Time will provoke wonder and delight * * Observer * * Hugely entertaining -- JOHN BOYNE * * Irish Times * * Outlandish . . . heartwarming, perceptive prose -- Anita Sethi * * Daily Telegraph * * An imaginative, ambitious novel by an author with an infectious passion for history and the human condition * * Sunday Express * * Haig writes exquisitely from the perspective of the heart-sore outsider, but at their most moving his novels reveal the unbearable beauty of ordinary life * * Guardian * *

Edition details

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786893177
• ISBN 13: 9781786893178
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Chris Riddell
• Number of pages: 336