![]() ![]() These brushes with famous people are somewhat credible but give the story a needless Forrest Gump quality. His life objective is to find his daughter, Marion, who he lost touch with in the early 1600s and who shares his quasi-immortality. Along the way, he crosses paths (albeit briefly or tangentially) with some famous people, including William Shakespeare, James Cook, and F. The society becomes both a safety net and a shackle, with a cult-like approach to loyalty and the demonstration of it. He becomes associated with an underground society of fellow “albatrosses” (as they call themselves) and through this gains a measure of safety and comfort, but at a price. ![]() After more than 400 years of life, he’s barely reached middle age. ![]() Like those granted the gift of immortality, he learns quickly that this gift is more curse as he is tormented by his community and has to watch those he loves grow old and die while he remains young. Tom Hazard is a man with a secret – he doesn’t age at the same rate as everyone else. A few months ago, when depositing some books in the local little free library, I saw this one recently deposited so scooped it up. I’ve had a few Matt Haig books in mind over the past year, mostly because his The Comfort Book is always prominently displayed at the bookstore, and his The Midnight Library has been popular in best-books lists the past few years. ![]()
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