How to Stop Time
by Matt Haig
Pages: 325
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Tom Hazard learns as a teen that he is different. His mother dies because of his secret. He is a man lost in time. Though he looks like an ordinary 41-year-old he is really, much, much older. He has a rare condition that causes him to age incredibly slowly and boosts his immune system to fight off disease. He has fell in love once and still mourns her loss. He has meet Shakespeare, Captain Cook and F. Scott Fitzgerald but what he really wants is to be ordinary. To be able to enjoy ordinary things, have friends and connect with other people without endangering them.
But the Albatross Society tracks down everyone with Tom's condition and enforces strict rules of behavior including rule number one -- don't fall in love. Can Tom actual form a friendship and maybe even fall in love again or will he be forever stuck in the past with the leader of the Albatross Society?
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