![]() ![]() ![]() Tom’s story shows us the downsides to near eternal life: being unsettled, avoiding relationships and watching nearly everyone he knows die whilst he has barely aged. The relationships he forms throughout his life add a really emotional touch to the book, and there were times when I felt my swinging-brick contracting with sadness for Tom and for the life that he is forced to live. Matt brings history alive in a way that I haven’t experienced in a novel before and I really enjoyed this aspect of the story, particularly around the Shakespeare time and the fights breaking out in The Globe, because this is history in a way that you would never expect to see it. ![]() The historical sections of the novel are so descriptive and evoke the senses so much that you feel as though you were there, or at the very least that the author was. The slow aging process is explored in detail over Tom’s lifetime as he experiences first hand the witch trials, the plague, Shakespeare at the globe, the jazz age and more. How to Stop Time is a book that questions the limits of what humans are prepared to believe. The one thing Tom must never do is fall in love… Regular humans who have discovered the secret tend to disappear. People like Tom are protected by a society that provides them with the ability and identities to move around frequently enough that they are not found out. ![]() He has a rare condition known as anageria which means he ages really slowly. ![]()
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