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|image          = Joyride (novel).jpg
|image          = <gallery>
|main character = [[Charlie (For Tonight We Might Die)|Charlie]], [[April MacLean|April]], [[Ram Singh|Ram]], [[Tanya Adeola|Tanya]], [[Quill (For Tonight We Might Die)|Miss Quill]]
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Classs - Joyride (Paperback Back).jpg|Paperback Back
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|main character = [[Ram Singh|Ram]], [[Charlie Smith|Charlie]], [[Andrea Quill|Quill]], [[April MacLean|April]], [[Tanya Adeola|Tanya]]
|featuring      = Matteusz Andrzejewski
|featuring2    = Varun Singh
|featuring3    = Jackie MacLean
|enemy          = [[Garry Fletcher]]
|enemy          = [[Garry Fletcher]]
|setting        = [[Shoreditch]], [[London]], [[2016]]<ref>In ''[[The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (TV story)|The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo]]'', we see a plaque that tells us the [[Barbara Wright Building]] was completed in spring [[2016]].</ref>
|setting        = [[Shoreditch]], [[London]], [[October]] [[2016]]
|writer        = [[Guy Adams]]
|writer        = Guy Adams
|release date  = [[27 October (releases)|27 October]] [[2016 (releases)|2016]]
|cover          = [[Head Design]]
|format        = Paperback, Kindle, 272 pages
|release date  = 27 October 2016
|isbn          = ISBN 1785941860
|format        = Paperback, Epub, 272 pages
|isbn          = ISBN 1-78594-186-0 (paperback)<br />ISBN 978-1-4735-3062-1 (Epub)
|number        = 1
|number        = 1
|series        = [[BBC Class novels|BBC ''Class'' novels]]
|series        = [[BBC Class novels|BBC ''Class'' novels]]
|prev          = none
|next          = The Stone House (novel)
|next          = The Stone House (novel)
}}{{prose stub}}
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== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
''"So, you can just leap into other people's bodies? Take them over? And while you’re in control, you can do whatever you want? Brilliant."''
''"So, can you just leap into other people's bodies? Take them over? And while you’re in control, you can do whatever you want? Brilliant."''


[[Poppy (Joyride)|Poppy]] is a quiet girl, right up until she steals a car and drives it through a shop window.
[[Poppy (Joyride)|Poppy]] is a quiet girl, right up until she steals a [[car]] and drives it through a [[Betting shop (Joyride)|shop]] window.


[[Max Collins|Max]] is a nice guy, but then he kills his whole family. Just for fun.
[[Max Collins|Max]] is a nice guy, but then he kills his whole family. Just for fun.
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== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Charlie (For Tonight We Might Die)|Charlie]]
* [[Ram Singh]]
* [[Quill (For Tonight We Might Die)|Miss Quill]]
* [[Charlie Smith]]
* [[Andrea Quill|Miss Quill]]
* [[April MacLean]]
* [[April MacLean]]
* [[Tanya Adeola]]
* [[Tanya Adeola]]
* [[Ram Singh]]
* [[Matteusz Andrzejewski]]
* [[Matteusz]]
* [[Garry Fletcher]]
* [[Garry Fletcher]]
* [[Steve Hopley]]
* [[Steve Hopley]]
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* [[Delano|WPC Delano]]
* [[Delano|WPC Delano]]
* [[Stephen Patrick]]
* [[Stephen Patrick]]
* [[Stan (Joyride)|Stan]]
* [[Gregson (Joyride)|Gregson]]
* [[Mike (Joyride)|Mike]]
* [[Mike (Joyride)|Mike]]
* [[Veltham]]
* [[Cheryl O'Donnell]]
* [[Sandra (Joyride)|Sandra]]
* [[Nigel (Joyride)|Nigel]]
* [[Garth Todd]]
* [[Garth Todd]]
''to be completed''
* [[Alien pilot (Joyride)|Alien pilot]]
 
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Individuals ===
* Ram's mother is called [[Janeeta Singh|Janeeta]].
* [[Garry Fletcher's mother's boyfriend|One of the first boyfriends]] of Garry Fletcher's [[Garry Fletcher's mother|mother]] was a [[squaddie]].
* Fletcher often buys [[doner]] and [[chips]] from [[Ranesh (Joyride)|Ranesh]] at the local [[kebab]] shop.
* Damon Adeola wonders if he should tell his mother [[Vivian Adeola|Vivian]] about the strange call from Ram.
 
=== Locations ===
==== Shoreditch locations ====
* Poppy works at the supermarket [[Morefields]].
* Mandy Taylor works at a [[Betting shop (Joyride)|betting shop]] on [[Shoreditch High Street|High Street]].
* Stan is the manager of [[Pig & Lettuce]] bar, sometimes visited by Gary Fletcher.
* Fletcher's company [[Joyriders]] is set in a former industrial estate that can be reached from [[Swallow Avenue]] via a small access road.
* Fletcher picks up James Banks and Barry Taylor at [[Old Street tube station|Old Street station]].
* O'Donnell in Ram's body runs along [[Great Eastern Street]].
* Ram cuts through [[Leonard Street]] on the way from Great Eastern Street to Swallow Avenue.
 
==== Other locations ====
* Stephen Patrick bets on horse races in [[Aintree]].
* George Barker is offered a return ticket to [[Basildon]].
* Quill takes the [[Central line]] to get home.
* When Ram walks along Swallow Avenue, he finds himself on [[Old Street]].
* Barry Taylor assumes that, since Charlie is an alien, he must be from [[Mars]].
* Fletcher drops Mrs Cummings at [[Barbican Centre|Barbican]].
* Mike was thrown under a tube train at [[Edgware Road tube station|Edgware Road]].
* Fletcher plans to run away to [[Dubai]] after making enough money.
* Steve once had a girlfriend from [[Leeds]]. He thinks of running away with his family to Leeds or [[Manchester (city)|Manchester]].
* James Banks transferred to a body of an eighteen-year-old from [[Brixton]].
 
=== Technology ===
* Poppy tries to break a window of a silver [[Honda]]. Ram thinks that nobody would like to change a [[Porsche]] for a [[Fiat]].
* The [[London Transport]] machine won't top up [[Miss Quill]]'s [[Oyster card]].
* Charlie owns an [[iPad]].
* Max Collins plays [[Xbox]] with his [[headphones]] on not to disturb his parents.
* Max and Tommy Collins' parents use [[secateurs]] and [[trowel]]s for gardening.
* Imogen Farmer removes the [[battery]] from the [[smoke alarm]] in the Collins' house to prevent it from going off.
* The news about Max Collins spreads from one [[Wi-Fi]] network to another.
* Quill throws a [[pen|biro]] cap in [[Lowe (Joyride)|Lowe]]'s forehead.
* Mike brings a [[petrol]] powered [[generator]] that can deliver [[electricity]] up to 230 volts.
* Fletcher uses a [[lump hammer]] and Mike uses a [[crowbar]] to kill the aliens.
* Steve tells Fletcher he thinks Joyriders does some [[Virtual reality|VR]] thing.
* Ram surmises that the body-swapping technology cannot be bought in an [[Apple Store]].
* Not all humans know how to [[Nuclear power|split an atom]].
* It is strange for Ram to be without a [[mobile phone]].
* Buses use [[hydraulic brakes]].
 
=== Police ===
* Poppy's body is removed from the car by [[SOCO]]s.
 
=== Media ===
* Quill observes many passengers with copies of ''[[Metro (newspaper)|Metro]]''.
* Tanya checks [[Buzzfeed]] and uses [[Facebook]].
 
=== Organisations ===
* Matteusz suggests a possibility of donating money on [[JustGiving]].
* Mike owns a company named [[Sparkz Mobile Disco]].
* A [[UNIT United Kingdom|UNIT]] team are brought in to take away Fletcher's alien technology.
 
=== Culture ===
* A splatter from a skull shot through by a bullet in a computer game is compared to paintings by [[Jackson Pollock]].
* Tommy Collins is wearing [[Iron Man]] pyjamas.
* Ram compares his being in [[John O'Donnell|somebody else]]'s body to a [[Ryan Reynolds]] movie where he swaps with [[Jason Bateman]], who gets to be Ryan Reynolds and decides not to have sex with [[Olivia Wilde]].
* Toby Moore remarks that [[viola]], the first name of Viola Cummings, is a musical instrument.
* Quill and Charlie hear sounds of an [[guitar|acoustic guitar]].


== References ==
=== Science ===
''to be added''
* Quill assigns calculating [[centripetal force]] as homework.
 
=== Food and drinks ===
* April burns a [[Hawaiian pizza]].
* When April comes to school, her breath smells of [[vodka]]. She says she is "not the one to down [[whisky]] when things get messy."
* Garry Fletcher orders [[chicken Chow Mein]].
 
=== Animals ===
* Tanya thinks about a small dog attacking an [[Alsatian]].
* Damon notes that Swallow Avenue has the same name as a [[Swallow (bird)|bird]].
* Steve scrunches himself into a ball like a [[hedgehog]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
''to be added
* The UK print erroneously refers to Coal Hill as "Coal Hill School". It is also inconsistent in spelling April's surname, giving the correct "MacLean" on some occasions and an incorrect "MacClean". The US print corrects the misspellings of April's surname to their proper form, but does not correct the references of Coal Hill as a school.
* In this story, the alien presence in [[Shoreditch]] is not related to the Rift at [[Coal Hill School|Coal Hill Academy]]: the [[Species (Joyride)|aliens]] arrived using their own space/time travelling technology six months prior to the events of [[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]''.
* This story must take place between ''[[The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (TV story)|The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo]]'' and ''[[Nightvisiting (TV story)|Nightvisiting]]'': Matteusz hasn't yet moved in with Charlie as would happen in the latter, and Coal Hill is in-between head teachers, meaning ''[[Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart (TV story)|Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart]]'' hasn't happened either.
[[File:Class - Joyride (Audiobook).jpg|thumb|Audiobook cover.]]
 
=== Audio release ===
* The story was released as an unabridged 6x CD audiobook along with the US version of the novel by Blackstone Audio and HarperCollins with Quill Tree Books as imprint<ref>https://www.harpercollins.com/products/class-joyride-patrick-nessguy-adams?variant=32128462585890</ref><ref name=":0">https://www.amazon.com/Class-Joyride-Patrick-Ness/dp/0062666207</ref> on [[3 October (releases)|3 October]] [[2017 (releases)|2017]],<ref name=":0" /> read by Steve West.<ref name=":0" />


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
* Miss Quill fought the [[Rhodian]]s and became a slave to the [[Charlie Smith|Rhodian prince]]. Then both of their people were wiped out by the [[Shadow Kin]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* The [[Twelfth Doctor]] saved Charlie and Miss Quill and tasked Charlie, Matteusz and the others with protecting people. Charlie and Matteusz discuss him and refer to him as "the man from space... the impossible man". ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* [[April MacLean]] shares a heart with [[Corakinus|an alien king]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'')
* At the prom, [[Ram Singh]]'s girlfriend [[Rachel Chapman|Rachel]] was killed by [[Corakinus]], who also chopped his leg off, which is now replaced by an alien prosthetic limb. ([[TV]]: ''[[For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)|For Tonight We Might Die]]'') Unlike his friends, Ram does not want to talk about it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (TV story)|The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo]]'')
* Ram's football skills have taken a serious hit due to the alien prosthetic limb. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (TV story)|The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo]]'')
* Ram remembers the deaths and gore surrounding the situation with Coach [[Tom Dawson|Dawson]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (TV story)|The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo]]'')
* Tanya plays a computer game with her brother [[Jarvis Adeola|Jarvis]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (TV story)|The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo]]'', ''[[Nightvisiting (TV story)|Nightvisiting]]'')
* Tanya checks out [[Seraphin]]'s videos. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[What She Does Next Will Astound You (novel)|What She Does Next Will Astound You]]'')
* [[Huw MacLean|April's father]] intentionally crashed their car with her and [[Jackie MacLean|her mother]] on board. All three survived it, but Jackie ended up in a wheelchair. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightvisiting (TV story)|Nightvisiting]]'')
* [[Varun Singh]] already knows what really happened to his son at the prom. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo (TV story)|The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
''to be added''
* {{Penguin|1112128/class-joyride/}}


== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
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prose stub

Joyride was the first release in the BBC Class novels series. It was written by Guy Adams, who had written for Doctor Who and Torchwood previously.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

"So, can you just leap into other people's bodies? Take them over? And while you’re in control, you can do whatever you want? Brilliant."

Poppy is a quiet girl, right up until she steals a car and drives it through a shop window.

Max is a nice guy, but then he kills his whole family. Just for fun.

Amar always seems so happy, so why is he trying to jump to his death from the school roof?

Some of the students of Coal Hill School are not themselves. Some of them are dying. Ram has just woken up in a body he doesn't recognise, and if he doesn't figure out why he may well be next.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Shoreditch locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Other locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Stephen Patrick bets on horse races in Aintree.
  • George Barker is offered a return ticket to Basildon.
  • Quill takes the Central line to get home.
  • When Ram walks along Swallow Avenue, he finds himself on Old Street.
  • Barry Taylor assumes that, since Charlie is an alien, he must be from Mars.
  • Fletcher drops Mrs Cummings at Barbican.
  • Mike was thrown under a tube train at Edgware Road.
  • Fletcher plans to run away to Dubai after making enough money.
  • Steve once had a girlfriend from Leeds. He thinks of running away with his family to Leeds or Manchester.
  • James Banks transferred to a body of an eighteen-year-old from Brixton.

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

Police[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Poppy's body is removed from the car by SOCOs.

Media[[edit] | [edit source]]

Organisations[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Matteusz suggests a possibility of donating money on JustGiving.
  • Mike owns a company named Sparkz Mobile Disco.
  • A UNIT team are brought in to take away Fletcher's alien technology.

Culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • A splatter from a skull shot through by a bullet in a computer game is compared to paintings by Jackson Pollock.
  • Tommy Collins is wearing Iron Man pyjamas.
  • Ram compares his being in somebody else's body to a Ryan Reynolds movie where he swaps with Jason Bateman, who gets to be Ryan Reynolds and decides not to have sex with Olivia Wilde.
  • Toby Moore remarks that viola, the first name of Viola Cummings, is a musical instrument.
  • Quill and Charlie hear sounds of an acoustic guitar.

Science[[edit] | [edit source]]

Food and drinks[[edit] | [edit source]]

Animals[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Tanya thinks about a small dog attacking an Alsatian.
  • Damon notes that Swallow Avenue has the same name as a bird.
  • Steve scrunches himself into a ball like a hedgehog.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The UK print erroneously refers to Coal Hill as "Coal Hill School". It is also inconsistent in spelling April's surname, giving the correct "MacLean" on some occasions and an incorrect "MacClean". The US print corrects the misspellings of April's surname to their proper form, but does not correct the references of Coal Hill as a school.
  • In this story, the alien presence in Shoreditch is not related to the Rift at Coal Hill Academy: the aliens arrived using their own space/time travelling technology six months prior to the events of TV: For Tonight We Might Die.
  • This story must take place between The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo and Nightvisiting: Matteusz hasn't yet moved in with Charlie as would happen in the latter, and Coal Hill is in-between head teachers, meaning Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart hasn't happened either.
Audiobook cover.

Audio release[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The story was released as an unabridged 6x CD audiobook along with the US version of the novel by Blackstone Audio and HarperCollins with Quill Tree Books as imprint[1][2] on 3 October 2017,[2] read by Steve West.[2]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ https://www.harpercollins.com/products/class-joyride-patrick-nessguy-adams?variant=32128462585890
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 https://www.amazon.com/Class-Joyride-Patrick-Ness/dp/0062666207
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