Matt Haig was born in Sheffield, England in1975. He writes books for both adults and children, often blending the worlds of domestic reality and outright fantasy, with a quirky twist. His bestselling novels are translated into 28 languages. The Guardian has described his writing as 'delightfully weird' and the New York Times has called him 'a novelist of great talent' whose writing is 'funny, riveting and heartbreaking'.
His novels for adults are The Last Family in England, narrated by a labrador and optioned for film by Brad Pitt; The Dead Fathers Club (2006), an update of Hamlet featuring an 11-year-old boy; The Possession of Mr Cave (2008), about a man obsessed with his daughter's safety, and The Radleys (2010) which won Channel 4's TV Book Club public vote and was shortlisted for a Galaxy National Book Award (UK). The film rights to all his adult novels have been sold. His next adult novel is The Humans (2013).
His multi-award winning popular first novel for children, Shadow Forest, was published in 2007 and its sequel, The Runaway Troll, in 2009. His most recent children's novel is To Be A Cat (2012).
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life.
So Tom moves back to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's history first hand. Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him. But the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present.
生活对我们来说,本质上是一种消耗。 当读到这一句的时候,忽然有点理解为什么卷福的制片公司会买下这本书的版权,并且卷福自己还会出演主角。 汤姆·哈泽德,出生于16世纪宗教战争中的法国,因为宗教战争而流亡到英国,在愚昧的民意中失去了母亲,也因此卷入了文艺复兴令人炫...
评分 评分 评分乱七八糟的一点浅思。 从作品来说部分情节是非常吸引文学女孩的设置,和莎士比亚的交情,以及和菲兹杰拉德的相遇,实在是太过奇妙有趣。 关于爱情“有人说,只要你有过真正的爱情,在爱逝去后,任何人都无法和当时的爱人相提并论。”四百年来都在爱一个人是什么样的感受,爱过...
披着科幻外衣,讲 寻找自我+爱情的文艺小说。 not my type
评分永生似乎是一种诅咒,特别是当你有了心爱之人。
评分听说卷福在本书未出版前就买下了版权,决定将其拍摄成电影。我很好奇到底是怎样的一本书能有这么大的魔力。于是找来看看,看之前并没有很高的期望。但是看完后,感觉一般。语言很简单,很有表现力,最后开枪的情景到现在(看完已经有一个多月了)还有模糊的印象。只是整本书都以主人公的爱情作为主线让我感觉有点闷,内心活动却是描写得不错,但我觉得对我而言,视角稍微窄了点。英语初学者可以拿来读读,找找成就感。
评分和我想象的故事其实不太一样,活的很久的人也有他们的烦恼 这是我之前没有想过的,听的有声书 很有趣 最后传达的信息也很好
评分The way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it。读过的作者第二本以异类身份第一人称写的小说了,按他解释,这本小说的创意恰恰来自上一本the humans。无论你活多久,真正有意义的只在当下,这么简单的道理为什么要不断重申?
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