Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Humans and four other books for adults. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been shortlisted three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been translated into 30 languages.
A rollicking time-hopping fantasy . . . How to Stop Time will
provoke wonder and delight
* * Observer * *
Hugely entertaining
* * Irish Times * *
Outlandish . . . heartwarming, perceptive prose
* * Daily Telegraph * *
An imaginative, ambitious novel by an author with an infectious
passion for history and the human condition
* * Sunday Express * *
Haig writes exquisitely from the perspective of the heart-sore
outsider, but at their most moving his novels reveal the unbearable
beauty of ordinary life
* * Guardian * *
Let Matt Haig take you on a journey . . . Brings every era to
vibrant life . . . original and fascinating
* * Stylist * *
Tear-jerking, time-hopping romance
* * Mail on Sunday * *
A fabulous book
*STEPHEN FRY*
How to Stop Time is a beautiful, and necessary book. I feel very
lucky to have read it. It is magical, intriguing and at times, very
sad. A triumph
*MARIAN KEYES*
Absolutely terrific
*GRAHAM NORTON*
My favourite book of this year, and most others. A dazzling read.
Time stopped still
*DANNY WALLACE*
Compelling and full of life's big questions, How to Stop Time is a
book you will not be able to put down
*GRAEME SIMSION, author of THE ROSIE PROJECT*
Strange and brilliant and heartfelt
*JENNY COLGAN*
It's not easy to write a book that's simultaneously fun and serious
and gripping and simple and profound, but Matt Haig manages it
again and again. How to Stop Time is just brilliant
*GAVIN EXTENCE, author of THE UNIVERSE VERUS ALEX WOODS*
Matt Haig is a writer for children and adults who is adept at
digging into the human heart
* * Sunday Times * *
Full of Haig's trademark humour and humanity. It is a wonderfully
entertaining ride through centuries of adventure with a gloriously
heart-warming message. A must read
* * Sunday Mirror * *
An epic, spellbinding new book . . . this is a brilliant
page-turner about family, love and dangerous secrets
* * Cosmopolitan * *
Halt everything to read Matt Haig's How to Stop Time . . . A tale
that makes you fall in love with reading all over again *****
* * The Sun * *
An ambitious plot is deftly handled in this exquisitely written
novel. A joy! *****
* * Heat Magazine * *
Engrossing . . . A book to relish
* * Metro * *
An exploration of how to make peace with one's past in a world
where time seems to rush past faster than ever
* * Sunday Post * *
A moving tale of regret and redemption
* * Psychologies * *
An epic, spellbinding new book . . . A brilliant page-turner about
family, love and dangerous secrets
* * Cosmopolitan * *
A tender, affecting novel about Tom Hazard, who's lived for 400
years. He's got it all under control as long as he doesn't fall in
love. Guess what happens next?
* * Red, 2017’s best summer reads * *
The narrator is 400 years old, but the sardonic asides give this
pacy novel a modern twist. Matt Haig has designs on our
heartstrings . . . The energy and zip of this book are hard to
resist
* * Guardian * *
A completely wonderful book
*JOANNA CANNON, author of THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP*
A refreshing exploration of how to make peace with one's past
selves
* * The Herald * *
Goodness. What a stunning book. Brilliant, beautiful and
mindbendingly magnificent
*JILL MANSELL*
A love story for the ages . . . A fresh spin on familiar ideas and,
at its best, gets to the heart of what defines us as human
* * iNews * *
Inventive, exciting, moving and bursting with insight about
history, time and what it is to be human
*KATE WILLIAMS, author of THE PLEASURES OF MEN*
Matt Haig has proven his worth as a fictional writer and an
ambassador for mental health awareness, and this novel conveniently
merges the two in a fun, dynamic story of overcoming grief and
one's past towards a healthy and stable mental wellbeing
* * Student Newspaper * *
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