How to stop time : a novel
(Book - Large Print)

First published in Great Britain by Canongate Books Ltd.

Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he's been alive for centuries -- performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life.

Tom Hazard may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Now he wants an ordinary life and moves back to London to become a high school history teacher-- the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's history first hand. A captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him. But the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As the Society threatens 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.