The #1 UK bestseller, with over 200,000 copies sold: a rare, wise and uplifting novel - a book to recommend to everyone.

The Sunday Times bestseller
A Richard & Judy book club pick
Winner of the 2017 Books Are My Bag Readers Award For Popular Fiction

How many lifetimes does it take to learn how to live?

Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher, but hes been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to Byron Bay, Tom has seen it all. As long as he keeps changing his identity he can keep one step ahead of his past - and stay alive. The only thing he must not do is fall in love...