“A quirky romcom dusted with philosophical observations….A delightfully witty…poignant novel.” —The Washington Post “She smiled a soft troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away and I wanted to slip with it to go wherever she was going… I had existed whole years without her but that was all it had been. An existence. A book with no words.” Tom Hazard has just moved back to London his old home to settle down and become a high school history teacher. And on his first day at school he meets a captivating French teacher at his school who seems fascinated by him. But Tom has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old but owing to a rare condition hes been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare exploring the high seas with Captain Cook and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now he just wants an ordinary life. Unfortunately for Tom the Albatross Society the secretive group which protects people like Tom has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Societys watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance the one thing he cant have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past or finally begin living in the present. 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. 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.