You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Erica and I'm Kelsey. We're two former

next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting you to

come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey friend. Hey friend. So this is a girl next door book club

episode. So we'll be spending the whole show discussing the novel How to Stop Time by Matt Haig.

If you're listening, you're in the book club.

That's the beauty of technology.

If you have not read the book and you want to go back and read it,

then just come back to this episode afterwards.

Waits for you.

No spoilers.

Let's start with just kind of a brief summary.

So this is just from Amazon in the book description. Okay. Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but because of a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries, from performing with Shakespeare to exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, to sharing cocktails with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tom has seen a lot. But now, after over 400 years of reinventing himself to

escape detection, he just wants an ordinary life. The only rule he has to follow is don't fall in love.

When Tom catches the eye of a captivating woman named Camille at the dog park, everything begins to unravel.

Caught between the danger of discovery and the desire to build a real life, Tom learns that the thing he can't have might just be the thing that saves him.

A wild, bittersweet, time-traveling story, How to Stop Time is about losing and finding yourself yourself about the certainty of change, about the

perils of love, and about the mistakes that humans are doomed to repeat.

Well, big stuff.

That was a mouthful.

And actually, it's funny because I feel like we picked this book because we thought it

would be fairly light, which it definitely was, like, lovely.

Right.

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