Tom hazard has a dangerous secret. he may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. from shakespeare's england to jazz age paris and voyaging the pacific, tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life. always changing his identity to stay alive, tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a london school. 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 mustn't do is fall in love. 'how to stop time' is a wild, bittersweet, time-travelling story about losing and finding yourself; about the certainty of change, and the mistakes humans are doomed to repeat. and about the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live.