October 31st, 2019
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Doctor Who At Childhood’s End by Sophie Aldred
Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk
Past, present and future collide as the Thirteenth Doctor meets classic Doctor Who companion Ace – in the first epic novel from the woman who played her, Sophie Aldred.
Once, a girl called Ace travelled the universe with the Doctor – until, in the wake of a terrible tragedy they parted company. Decades later, she is known as Dorothy McShane, the reclusive millionaire philanthropist who heads global organisation A Charitable Earth.
And Dorothy is haunted by terrible nightmares, vivid dreams that begin just as scores of young runaways are vanishing from the dark alleyways of London. Could the disappearances be linked to sightings of sinister creatures lurking in the city shadows? Why has an alien satellite entered a secret orbit around the Moon?
Investigating the satellite with Ryan, Graham and Yaz, the Doctor is thrown together with Ace once more. Together they must unravel a malevolent plot that will cost thousands of lives. But can the Doctor atone for her past incarnation’s behaviour – and how much must Ace sacrifice to win victory not only for herself, but for the Earth?
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Seanoff
September 2nd, 2020 - 10:50pmFor anybody who’s interested, this is currently 99p on Amazon Kindle.
Anonymous
November 12th, 2019 - 7:27pmI like the look of this, Will there be any signed copies going up for preorder as well?
Anonymous
November 9th, 2019 - 8:52amBe great if following this she makes a return to the new tv series would be great to see her on screen come face to face with the 13th Dr!
Whofan44
November 8th, 2019 - 12:52pmI do wonder if the upcoming Big Finish audio Dark Universe which also features an older Ace deliberately being release probably less than a month before this book is intentional or coincidental. I would probably lean towards the latter. I also hope one does not contradict the other.
Daz
November 5th, 2019 - 12:29amAce meeting the thirteenth Doctor sounds great I will have to get this, and it’s by Sophie too who better to write about Ace!
It’s great when the classic and new series cross over hopefully we will get Ace on the show again one day too.
The Flying Shark
November 1st, 2019 - 7:42amYes Yes Yes! Definitely buying! Hope she does signings for the book too, and an audiobook as well as she has a wonderful voice.
Anonymous
November 1st, 2019 - 3:43pmAudio book confirmed. Sophie is the reader.
Anonymous
November 1st, 2019 - 1:26amLove the striking cover as well. Ace is back! Sounds good. Like how the title spells out ace as well. To those concerned about whether it contradicts previous who lore I wouldn’t worry to much as ace’s continuity is confused anyway. Look at it like this, the crack in time means all history is in flux so that all timelines count. In one timeline ace follows the comics, in another virgin books, another BBC books and another big finish. The crack in time gives you the opportunity to accept all potential timelines or if for the sake of argument you don’t buy big finish CDs then you just forget about them. I don’t worry about continuity (never really have) but now we have the perfect answer. Crack in time changed it!
Adam
November 1st, 2019 - 10:22pmIt does make a handy explanation 🙂 [as do others – Time War, etc.]
Anonymous
November 6th, 2019 - 3:51amAs far as I can tell, it seems to be
-Traveled with Doctor.
-Stayed on Gallifrey to become a Time Lord
-Became involved with Time War (BF Gallifrey)
-Following her involvement with the tine war, made her way back to modern day earth, where she started the ‘A Charitable Earth’ foundation (Sarah Jane Adventures, Class audios and Season 26 bluray trailer which, yes, I am counting as canon!)
Anonymous
November 1st, 2019 - 12:10amWonderful! So pleased about this
I Cotterill
October 31st, 2019 - 11:36pmWill this end up contradicting the New Adventures books and the Big Finish audios?
Phasergrim
November 1st, 2019 - 12:11amMaybe, but there are in universe ways of explaining such inconsistencies away. The popular one being that ripples from the time war changed things or created alternate time lines. But it could weave within the lines of pre-existing stuff, I imagine she’s had a bit of help on this like Tom Baker did with Scratchman and they could well have made sure it stayed true. But time will tell, it always does.
Simon Cooper
November 1st, 2019 - 3:30pmThey already contradict each other. And that’s before getting into that fact that she dies as a teenager in “Ground Zero”…
Xisco L
November 1st, 2019 - 8:38pmThis actually seems to be in keeping with the BF/SJA continuity what with her having A Charitable Earth (Class, Gallifrey: Time War).
Anonymous
November 1st, 2019 - 9:06pmFirst mentioned in death of the doctor I believe
Andrew
October 31st, 2019 - 10:44pmBeen hoping for a thing like this ever since the Nice Season 27 blu-ray trailer.
Wonder if Sophie will be referring to said trailer and/or her Ace stories with Big Finish to any degree in the plot.
Adam
November 1st, 2019 - 10:26pmI quite like the idea of that scene in the trailer, where you see the 7th Doctor’s silhouette through the window, being the very final scene of this book 🙂
Jamie D
October 31st, 2019 - 10:20pmNow this sounds very interesting.
Sean Bassett
October 31st, 2019 - 10:17pmPleasantly surprised that this is a Thirteenth Doctor novel. I assumed it was a Seventh Doctor one.
bryan
October 31st, 2019 - 10:03pmI have been waiting for the info for this, since it first appeared on Amazon.
And it was worth the wait. Never for a moment did I think this would be a 13th Doctor novel.
Fantastic news. Brilliant sounding Plot.
Adam
November 1st, 2019 - 10:38pmYeah, I’m gobsmacked. I wonder how 13’s “fam” will react to Ace – I don’t think she mentioned travelling with other people before them at any point last series, so will they already know that or are they in for a shock like Rose was?
Likewise, the subject of the Doctor’s gender change is bound to come up and I’m not sure the new lot know about that yet. I know they hear her mention being a man before, but do they realise she’s being serious or just think she’s joking? I don’t recall her even telling them she’s a Time Lady, so it’s not really clear how much of the basics they know about her.
So many questions (and reasons to buy this book)…
I hope this trend of actors from the show writing novels continues, too.
Son of Skaro
October 31st, 2019 - 9:59pmInteresting. An Ace and 13th meet up.
Intrigued to see how different the older Dorothy McShane is to The Ace we last saw in survival.
Anonymous
October 31st, 2019 - 9:54pmWhyisthisnotaTVepisode
Adam
November 1st, 2019 - 10:45pmI know, right?!
That’s really my only concern – what if the show brings back another old character or ex-companion? They’ll almost certainly treat it like THAT’s 13’s companions first time meeting someone like that (for the sake of anyone who hasn’t read this) and contradict what sounds like is going to be a great read :/
I know that’d hardly be the end of the world, but still.
A4geek
October 31st, 2019 - 9:04pmOn Amazon: ‘At Childhood’s End’
Past, present and future collide as the Thirteenth Doctor meets classic Doctor Who companion Ace – in the first epic novel from the woman who played her, Sophie Aldred.
Anonymous
October 14th, 2019 - 2:34pmNo info yet, but presumably a seventh doctor novel
Sean Bassett
October 14th, 2019 - 1:03pmInteresting. A new original Seventh Doctor novel?
Sean Bassett
October 14th, 2019 - 1:03pmInteresting. A new original Seventh Doctor novel?