Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old but he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to jazz-age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen it all. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher in London. But the past is fast catching up with him. The only thing he 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.