In modern day London we watch as his life repeats itself and he begins to fall in love with Camille, a French teacher at his school. While initially wary of him, they end up falling in love and having a daughter. We see him fall in love with Rose, a fruit seller he meets after leaving his home town. The one thing the Society warned him not to do was fall in love…whoops…Īlternating between present day London and his past 400 years of life, we see the differences between Tom now and Tom then. There’s not much he has to be careful about, most people wouldn’t believe him if he started talking about the things he’s seen or the people he’s met. Yet, he holds a dangerous secret: he was born in 1581. It is, in every way, a triumph not to be missed.Tom Hazard looks like your average 40-something history teacher. It examines large issues-history, time, purpose, and more-but in an engagingly thought-provoking, compulsively readable way. Haig’s plot is obviously complex, but-a marvel of invention-it is seamlessly presented, telling an absolutely compelling story. But, for various reasons, Tom’s life is once again at risk. But the heart has its reasons, and now, a history teacher in London, he falls in love with Camille, the school’s French teacher, a fact he must keep from the vaguely sinister Henrich, head of the Albatross Society, which exists to protect albas, i.e., people like Tom. Finally, to protect them, he must leave them and, for centuries, refuses to fall in love. He then moves to London, where he meets Rose and, falling in love, they marry and have a daughter, Marion, but must move constantly before their neighbors begin to notice Tom’s condition. To his ignorant, superstitious neighbors in sixteenth-century Suffolk, he appears not to age at all this being clearly the devil’s work, his mother is killed for being a witch. His condition began to manifest itself at puberty. For every 15 years a normal person ages, he ages a single year. He has a rare but not unique condition called anageria, which means he ages but very, very slowly. Tom Hazard is 439 years old! Impossible, you say? Not at all.
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