Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary forty-one-year-old man, but due to a rare condition, he carries centuries on his back. From Elizabethan England to jazz-era Paris and from New York to the southern seas, Tom has seen it all. What he craves now is a normal life.
Constantly changing his identity to survive, he has constructed the perfect façade - working as a history teacher at a London high school, where he can freely talk to his students about wars and witch hunts. There, he will try to tame the past that haunts him at arm's length. The only thing Tom must not do is fall in love. "How to Stop Time" is a book about loss and self-discovery, a book about the inevitability of change and the lives you will need to live until you learn to truly live.