Read October 2018.
Having previously read and loved Matt Haig's The Humans, I was looking forward to this one.
Tom Hazard has a condition. Unlike someone who ages prematurely, Tom ages very slowly. he may only look 41, but he has been alive for centuries.
There is a secret society that looks over those who are like Tom, and the society's number one rule is that they should not fall in love, as this is very hard when the person you love is doomed to die before you.
Unfortunately for Tom, he has been in love before and thinks he may be falling again, even if it is forbidden. Somewhere he also has a daughter, who he believes may be like him. Life is never easy for Tom and he has some difficult choices to make.
I found this book to be more of a "grower" than The Humans, but Matt Haig has a way of getting down to the essentials of what it means to be a human being that is very touching and emotional.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am not ashamed to say that I shed a tear or two at the end (a bit awkward in the optician's waiting room), just as I did at the end of The Humans.
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