Tom Hazard has a rare condition - he ages very, very slowly with the result that, while he looks about 41, he is in fact over 400 years old.

Over the centuries, it's been a dangerous condition to have, so he's continually changed identities and moved from place to place. And he's travelled the world.

Now, in a search for at least the pretence of normality, Tom's back in London, where he attends an interview for a job as a history teacher at a school in Tower Hamlets.

Matt Haig's novel abridged by Jeremy Osborne.

Read by Tom Hollander.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes.

Matt Haig is the bestselling author of Reasons To Stay Alive. An award-winning writer of books for children and young adults, he has written five novels for adults.

Producer: Lisa Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2017. Show less