The Lost Boy (novelisation)

The Lost Boy
Based on:	The Lost Boy
Main character(s):	Sarah Jane, Maria, Luke, Clyde
Featuring:	Alan, Chrissie, K9
Main enemy:	Mr Smith
Main setting:	Ealing, 2000s
Key crew
Publisher:	Penguin Character Books
Writer:	Gary Russell
Release details
Release number:	6
Release date:	6 November 2008
Format:	Paperback book; 13 chapters, 114 pages
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-4059-0506-0
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The Lost Boy was a novelisation based on the 2007 TV story The Lost Boy. With its release, coinciding with the release of Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? on the same day, all episodes of the first series of The Sarah Jane Adventures were adapted. It is the first time a complete season of a Doctor Who-related series had been fully adapted in novelisation form within a year of it finishing.

Publisher's summary

Life on Earth can be an adventure, too. You just need to know where to look.

Sarah Jane is shocked to see an appeal on television by distraught parents of a missing boy — Luke, her adopted son! She is accused of kidnapping him and has to hand Luke over to his "real" parents. But something doesn't seem right. With the help of her friends, Maria, Clyde and Alan, Sarah Jane uncovers a sinister alien plot and a shocking truth about a loyal "friend"...

Chapter titles

1. The nightmare begins
2. Wall of lies
3. Hidden danger
4. A change of identity
5. Conspiracy
6. The powerful enemy
7. Journey into terror
8. The ordeal
9. Kidnap
10. A battle of wits
11. Escape into danger
12. Day of Armageddon
13. The final phase

Characters

• Sarah Jane Smith
• Luke Smith
• Maria Jackson
• Clyde Langer
• Mr Smith
• Alan Jackson
• Chrissie Jackson
• Slitheen family
• Mrs Galagher
• Mr Robinson
• Mrs Robinson
• Mrs Townsend
• George Bailey
• Nathan Goss
• Marco Goss
• June Goss
• K9
• Mr Cairn
• Robert Lines

Worldbuilding

• Luke remembers the quantum theory and Colluphid's Law of Hyper-Dimensional Mechanics, and he could spot flaws in Einstein's theory of relativity.
• The house that the Stafford family was supposed to live in was 26 Chalsey Grove.
• Brendan Richards is still working in Silicon Valley.
• In Ashley Stafford's room are were posters of footballers, In-Demand and UNIT 4.
• Nathan Goss was a fan of the Everton football club.
• Clyde Langer got Luke Smith into Kasabian, next he wanted to show him the music of the Arctic Monkeys.
• Peter Fairley, Patricia Conway, Ann Reynolds and Bryan Cawston are working for the Pharos Institute.
• Bloorm Vungah Bart Slitheen, Dax Fex Fize Slitheen and Korst Gogg Thek Lutiven-Day Slitheen stole the technology which made them able to use slim skin suits from the Blathereen family.
• The Slitheen want to sell Luke's telekinetic energy at the Energies Black Market on Antara IV.
• Ealing Broadway is Ealing's town centre.
• The Hambleton Estate is located at Grass Street at the Lake District. The Goss family lives at 64 Grass Street. They moved there from Guildford.
• Robert Lines is a member at the West Ealing Police.
• The residents of Hambleton Estate often go shopping in Carlisle.
• Old Forest Road leads into Bannerman Road.
• Luke has a T-shirt from the Natural History Museum.

Deviations from the televised story

• The novelisation features a specially written prologue. Written from Mrs Townsend's point of view, it describes how the Goss family got killed by the Slitheen and how their skin suits were used to create the fictional Heidi and Jay Stafford.

Continuity

to be added