Matt Haig is a very versatile and highly imaginative writer. He writes for children and adults, and has written an essential memoir about depression. How To Stop Time is a novel. It's about Tom Hazard, who appears to be in his early 40s, but because he has a rare condition, he has been alive for centuries. He's in the habit of changing his identity and moving on every 8 years or so, before people become suspicious. That means not falling in love. Haig uses this set up to explore what life and love really mean, what it's like to lose and find yourself, how to learn how to live. It's bittersweet, and effortlessly profound. It will make you think about your own life in a powerful way, and will stay with you for ages.