'Benedict Cumberbatch Prepping 'How to Stop Time' With StudioCanal'. 'What Would It Be Like to Be 400 Years Old?'. ^ a b Clark, Clare (16 February 2018).In April 2023, it was announced that the Cumberbatch and SunnyMarch project would now be a 6-part TV series. In early 2017, the film rights to the book were acquired by Benedict Cumberbatch's production company, SunnyMarch.

Los Angeles Times' reviewer Chelsea Leu wrote, 'Hendrich is a physical manifestation of Tom’s fears of attachment and vulnerability, though he’s more comic book villain than sensitively rendered character.' Adaptation

the reader craving some of the sharp-edged black humor that made The Humans such a delight.' According to Clark, while ' The Humans was warmhearted, sharply observed and often laugh-out-loud funny, funny enough to forgive Haig’s alien his regrettable fondness for fortune-cookie philosophy. Writing for The New York Times, English writer Clare Clark compared the book unfavourably to Matt Haig's previous book The Humans. The book received mixed or poor reviews from The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and PopMatters. NPR considered How to Stop Time 'a meditation on the tick and tock of time and mortality.' The Guardian reviewer said, 'The energy and zip of this book are hard to resist.' The book also landed on IndieBound's Indie Next List February 2018 and Summer 2019. It was named a bestseller by The Los Angeles Times. How to Stop Time received starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, as well as positive reviews from The Guardian, NPR, The Washington Post, and Kirkus Reviews. As the story unfolds, he has to decide whether to remain safely in the past, or to risk living in the present.

Tom is constantly under the supervision of the Albatross Society, a secretive group which claims to protect people like him, and its leader, Hendrich. He was born in 1581 in France and has lived history alongside famous historical characters such as Shakespeare, Captain Cook, and F. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but due to a rare condition, he has been alive for centuries. Tom Hazard has just moved back to London to take a job as a high school history teacher.

How to Stop Time is a historical fantasy novel by English writer Matt Haig, published in July 2017.

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