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|series       = [[BBC New Series Adventures]]
|name = Shroud of Sorrow
|number      = 54
|series = [[BBC New Series Adventures]]
|doctor       = Eleventh Doctor
|doctor = Eleventh Doctor
|companions   = [[Clara Oswald|Clara]]
|companions = [[Clara Oswin Oswald|Clara]]
|featuring   = [[Reg Cranfield|Reg]]
|featuring =  
|enemy       = [[Shroud]]
|enemy = the [[Shroud]]
|setting      = {{il|[[Dallas]], [[23 November]] [[1963]]|[[Semtis]]}}
|year =  
|writer       = Tommy Donbavand
|writer = [[Tommy Donbavand]]
|cover        = Lee Binding
|publisher = [[BBC Books]] (UK)<br />[[Broadway Paperbacks]] (US)
|read by      = [[Frances Barber]]
|release date = [[8 April]] [[2013]]
|publisher   = BBC Books{{!}}BBC Books (UK)
|isbn = ISBN 978-1-84990-576-3
|publisher2  = Broadway Paperbacks{{!}}Broadway Paperbacks (US)
|format = Hardback (UK)<br />Paperback (US)
|release date = 8 April 2013
|prev = The Dalek Generation (novel)|
|isbn         = ISBN 978-1-84990-576-3
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|format       = Hardback (UK)<br />Paperback (US)<br />256 pages
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'''''Shroud of Sorrow''''' was the fifty-fourth novel in the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Tommy Donbavand]] and featured the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]].


'''''Shroud of Sorrow''''' is one of three [[Eleventh Doctor]] novels published in April [[2013]] and the first to feature [[Clara Oswin Oswald]].
== Publisher's summary ==
[[23 November]] [[1963]]


== Publisher's summary ==
It is the day after [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy's assassination]] and the faces of the dead are everywhere. [[constable|PC]] [[Reg Cranfield]] sees his late father in the mists along [[Totter's Lane]]. Reporter [[Mae Callon]] sees her grandmother in a [[coffee]] stain on her desk. [[FBI]] Special Agent [[Warren Skeet]] finds his long-dead partner staring back at him from [[rain]]drops on a window pane.
[[23rd November|23 NOVEMBER]], [[1963]]


It is the day after John F. Kennedy's assassination and the faces of the dead are everywhere. PC [[Reg Cranfield]] sees his late father in the mists along [[Totter's Lane]]. Reporter [[Mae Callon]] sees her grandmother in a coffee stain on her desk. FBI Special Agent [[Warren Skeet]] finds his long-dead partner staring back at him from raindrops on a window pane.
The faces begin to talk and scream and push through into our world as the alien [[Shroud]] begins to feast on the grief of a world in mourning. Can the [[Eleventh Doctor]] dig deep enough into his own sorrow to save mankind?


The faces begin to talk and scream and push through into our world as the alien [[Shroud]] begins to feast on the grief of a world in mourning. Can the [[Eleventh Doctor|Doctor]] dig deep enough into his own sorrow to save mankind?
== Plot ==
After Clara and the Doctor help a ship to fly away from a world covered in a vast, bubble bath filled liquid, they are entailed in an adventure that involves them thwarting an alien's plot to send the whole world into grief. They end up meeting a news reporter and an FBI agent on 23 November 1963, after the [[assassination]] of [[John F. Kennedy]], who, along with an army of clowns, help the Doctor to stop the [[Shroud]] from draining the world full of happiness.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Eleventh Doctor]]
* [[Eleventh Doctor]]
* [[Clara Oswin Oswald|Clara Oswald]]
* [[Clara Oswald]]
* [[Mae Callon]]
* [[Mae Callon]]
* [[Reg Cranfield]]
* [[Reg Cranfield]]
* [[Warren Skeet]]
* [[Warren Skeet]]
* [[Shroud]]
* The [[Shroud]]
* [[Penelope Holroyde]]
* [[Penelope Holroyde]]
* [[Astrid Peth]] (the Shroud)
* [[Ben Parsons]]
* [[Ben Parsons]]
* [[Jim]]
* [[Jim (Shroud of Sorrow)|Jim]]
* [[Betty Callon]] (the Shroud)
* [[Jock]] (the Shroud)
* [[Mairi Ellison]]
* [[Mairi Ellison]]
* [[Ruby]]
* [[Ruby (Shroud of Sorrow)|Ruby]]
* [[Tyler]] (the Shroud)
* [[Andrew Ross]]
* [[Andrew Ross]]
* [[Sophie]] (the Shroud)
* [[Sammy (Shroud of Sorrow)|Sammy]]
* [[Betty]]
* [[Reuben]] (the Shroud)
* [[Sammy]]
* [[Edith Thomas]]
* [[Edith Thomas]]
* [[Tess]] (the Shroud)
* [[Mr Parsons]]
* [[Mr. Parsons]]
* [[Jane (Shroud of Sorrow)|Jane]]
* [[Jane]]
* [[Michael Green]]
* [[Michael Green]]
* [[Peggy]]
* [[Peggy (Shroud of Sorrow)|Peggy]]
* [[Wright|Private Wright]]
* [[Wright (Shroud of Sorrow)|Private Wright]]
* [[Scott|Sergeant Scott]]
* [[Scott (Shroud of Sorrow)|Sergeant Scott]]
* [[Harley B. West|General Harley B. West]]
* [[Harley B. West|General Harley B. West]]
* [[Adam Keating|Captain Adam Keating]]
* [[Adam Keating|Captain Adam Keating]]
* [[Flip Flop]]
* [[Flip Flop]]
* [[Wobblebottom]]
* [[Wobblebottom]]
* [[Jorge]]
* [[Jorge (Shroud of Sorrow)|Jorge]]
* [[Dolfini]]
* [[Dolfini]]
* [[Orma]]
* [[Orma]]
* [[Jaz]]
* [[Jaz]]
* [[John F. Kennedy]] (mentioned)
* [[Bev Sanford]]
* [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (mentioned)
* [[Shirley (Shroud of Sorrow)|Shirley]]
* [[Cathy (Shroud of Sorrow)|Cathy]]
* [[Pinky Bradford]]


== References ==
=== Individuals imitated by the Shroud ===
* A character in this book, [[Reg Cranfield]], is a policeman patrolling [[Totter's Lane]], and is named for the actor who played the policeman at the beginning of [[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]''.
* [[Betty Callon]]
* Mae works at the ''[[Dallas Morning News]]'' on Young Street.
* [[Jock (Shroud of Sorrow)|Jock]]
* As the Doctor starts up the TARDIS, he mentions fueling the thermo buffer and flash updating the nano-ram.
* [[Tyler (Shroud of Sorrow)|Tyler]]
* The Doctor says that the wormhole circling [[Earth]] is similar to a doughnut before redacting that statement and saying that it's more like a Scotch [[Egg|egg]].
* [[Sophie (Shroud of Sorrow)|Sophie]]
* An [[Ambulance|ambulance]] is used as the Doctor's main mode of transportation when the TARDIS doesn't work.
* [[Betty (Shroud of Sorrow)|Betty]]
* By using some form of [[Telepathy|telepathy]], the Doctor travels inside Ben's mind to see what the Shroud is doing to him.
* [[Reuben (Shroud of Sorrow)|Reuben]]
* The Doctor says that he left primary school when he was 45 years old.
* [[Tess]]
* The Doctor brings up his degree in cheese again, "but only the stinky, blue kind".
* [[Astrid Peth]]
* [[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]] and her book, ''On Death and Dying'' are brought up when the Doctor realizes that her theory about the five stages of grief were correct. The two of them apparently argued about it.
 
* The Doctor spent his gap year in the [[Bethlem Royal Hospital]], mentioning that it was a nice place before he went to visit [[Peter Streete]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]'')
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Doctor once met [[John F. Kennedy]] at a party in the 1950's, just before getting engaged to [[Marilyn Monroe]] at [[Frank Sinatra]]'s house. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]'')]]
* Mae works at the ''[[Dallas Morning News]]'' on [[Young Street]].
* The Doctor uses [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Lethbridge-Stewart]]'s name and rank as an alias (though he quickly swaps "brigadier" for "colonel" mid-sentence), and dons a mustache for the occasion.
* The Doctor says that the wormhole circling [[Earth]] is similar to a [[doughnut]] before redacting his statement and saying that it's more like a [[Scotch egg]].
* When Clara asks how the Doctor changed his outfit so quickly, he replies with "wibbly-wobbly wardrobe".
* An [[ambulance]] is used as the Doctor's main mode of transportation when the TARDIS doesn't work.
* The Doctor uses the foot of a sock, a satsuma, a nectarine, and a length of string to explain how a wormhole works.
* By using some form of [[telepathy]], the Doctor travels inside Ben's mind to see what the Shroud is doing to him.
* The Doctor describes the [[Time Vortex]] as a "huge, complicated, multidimensional, trans-temporal thingy" that comes in two colors.
* The Doctor brings up his degree in [[cheese]] again, but specifies that it's "only the stinky, [[blue]] kind".
* The wormhole in this story is described as unique; there was a tunnel that needed to be traversed, unlike other wormholes that were instantaneous, there was breathable air, had a solid area to walk across (though was described as uneven), resembles a "dead" Time Vortex,  and has the bodies of the Shroud's previous victims spread across its walls. The Doctor mentions that the bodies greatly resembled the bodies of [[Pompeii]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fires of Vulcan]]'') People that travel across the wormhole also have a chance of experiencing a mental jump and going through what one of the victims went through before their death.
* [[Elisabeth Kübler-Ross]] and her book, ''[[On Death and Dying]]'', are brought up when the Doctor realises that her theory about the five stages of grief were correct. The two of them apparently argued about it.
* The houses built into the side of the hill are described as [[The Lord of the Rings|hobbit holes]] by Clara.
* The Doctor spent his gap year in the [[Bethlem Royal Hospital]], mentioning that it was a nice place before he went to visit [[Peter Streete]].
* The entire contents of the Doctor's pockets include the [[Sonic Screwdriver]], the [[Psychic Paper]], a satsuma, a nectarine, a piece of string, a carrot, an original Paul E. Wirt pen, given to him by Mark Twain after he had written the first draft of ''Huckleberry Finn'' (Twain was apparently a terrible speller), a large key, a computer mouse, a baseball signed by Babe Ruth, a recorder.
* The Doctor once met [[John F. Kennedy]] at a party in the [[1950s]], just before getting engaged to [[Marilyn Monroe]] at [[Frank Sinatra]]'s house.
* The Doctor uses the foot of a [[sock]], a [[satsuma]], a [[nectarine]], and a length of [[string]] to explain how a wormhole works.
* The Doctor describes the [[Time Vortex]] as a "huge, complicated, multidimensional, trans-temporal thingy" that comes in two colours.
* The houses built into the side of the hill are described as [[hobbit]] holes by Clara.
* Contents of the Doctor's pockets include the [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]], the [[psychic paper]], a [[satsuma]], a [[nectarine]], a piece of [[string]], a pair of [[scissors]], a [[carrot]], an original Paul E. Wirt [[pen]], given to him by [[Mark Twain]] after he had written the first draft of ''[[Huckleberry Finn]]'', a large [[key]], a [[computer mouse]], a [[baseball]] signed by [[Babe Ruth]], and the [[recorder]] used by his second incarnation, which he plays.
* [[Semtis]] is a planet situated in the top left-hand corner of the [[Andromeda (galaxy)|Andromeda galaxy]].
* [[Semtis]] is a planet situated in the top left-hand corner of the [[Andromeda (galaxy)|Andromeda galaxy]].
* The Doctor refers to clown cars as the only other [[Dimensionally transcendental|dimensionally transcendental]] vehicle in the universe besides the [[TARDIS]]. They are inspired by Gallifreyan technology such as the Type 40 TARDIS.
* The Doctor refers to [[clown car]]s as the only other [[dimensionally transcendental]] vehicle in the universe besides [[the TARDIS]].
* Clara comes across a sauna in the TARDIS.
* Clara comes across a [[sauna]] in the TARDIS.
* The Doctor mentions he met a [[Sontaran]] stand-up comedian.
* The Doctor mentions that he met a [[Sontaran]] stand-up comedian.
* The Doctor asks Mae if her grandmother is an alien or at least an [[Auton]].
* The Doctor asks Mae if her grandmother is an alien or at least an [[Auton]].
* The Doctor once argued with [[Elizabeth Kübler-Ross]] and the fives stages of grief but realises that she was right when he realises what the Shroud second stage of attack revolves around the fives stages of grief.
 
* The Doctor was forced to throw away a [[baseball]] signed by [[Babe Ruth]].
=== Foods and Beverages ===
* The Doctor has a [[carrot]] in his pocket.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* Of the three novels released in April 2013, this is the only one to feature Clara Oswald and marks her literary debut.
* Of the three novels released in April 2013, this is the only one to feature Clara Oswald and marks her literary debut. It is also, to date, the only full-length Eleventh Doctor novel to feature her.
* At the time of its release, this was the only piece of spin-off fiction confirmed to feature Clara, as neither the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' nor ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' comic strips, nor [[AudioGO]] talking books line had announced any upcoming stories featuring the companion.
* At the time of its release, this was the only piece of spin-off fiction confirmed to feature Clara, as neither the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' nor ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' comic strips, nor [[AudioGO]] talking books line had announced any upcoming stories featuring the companion.
* The novel is set on and around 23rd November, 1963, the day ''Doctor Who'' debuted, and revisits [[Totter's Lane]].
* The novel is set on and around 23rd November, 1963, the day ''Doctor Who'' debuted, and revisits [[Totter's Lane]]. A meta reference to this takes place when Doctor notes that it's Saturday teatime in Britain and "the fun is about to begin." Published in the 50th anniversary year, this is the only original novel published that year to have an explicit tie to the milestone. However, its sibling releases, ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[The Dalek Generation (novel)|The Dalek Generation]]'', released on the same day also, contain brief (and possibly coincidental) references to the anniversary: the former mentions [[Karn]] ahead of the premier of ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'', while the latter ends with the Doctor declaring "No more".
* A character in this book, [[Reg Cranfield]], is a policeman patrolling [[Totter's Lane]], and is named for [[Reg Cranfield (actor)|the actor]] who played [[Policeman (An Unearthly Child)|the policeman]] at the beginning of "[[An Unearthly Child (episode)|An Unearthly Child]]".
* The wormhole in this story is described as unique; there was a tunnel that needed to be traversed, unlike other wormholes that were instantaneous, there was breathable air, it had a solid area to walk across (though it was described as uneven), it resembled a "dead" Time Vortex, and had the bodies of the Shroud's previous victims spread across its walls. The Doctor mentions that the bodies greatly resembled the bodies of [[Pompeii]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Fires of Vulcan (audio story)|The Fires of Vulcan]]'') People that travel across the wormhole also have a chance of experiencing a mental jump and going through what one of the victims went through before their death.
* Various incarnations of the Doctor attended the Brigadier's funeral. Paragraphs of the book (without name) refer to the Second, Third, Sixth, Seventh and Ninth Doctor being present during the event, and the First Doctor once mentions that all of his incarnations were present at the funeral and behaved themselves, although some arguing did occur at the wake. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gift (ST short story)|The Gift]]'') The Eleventh Doctor is made aware of the Brigadier's death in ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'', however the Seventh Doctor appeared to be aware of the circumstances in ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]''.
* This was chronologically the last BBC New Series Adventures novel to date to feature the Eleventh Doctor, the other two novels released at the same time taking place prior to Clara becoming a companion. (A later release, ''[[Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor's Last Stand|Tales of Trenzalore]]'' was a short story collection, not a novel.)


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor mentions [[Astrid Peth]] and the [[Titanic (spaceship)|Titanic]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Dammed]]'')
* Just before using the Once More With Feeling on himself, the Doctor reassures Clara by saying that it's "as easy as falling off a mushroom on [[Mechanus]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'')
* Just before using the Once More With Feeling on himself, the Doctor reassures Clara by saying that it's "as easy as falling off a mushroom on [[Mechanus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase]]'')
* The Doctor previously visited Dallas during [[JFK]]'s [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination]], albeit in his ninth incarnation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
* An enormous amount of previous companions and their departures are shown as the Doctor uses the Once More With Feeling on himself, including [[Susan Foreman]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]''), [[Zoe Heriot]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]''), [[Jo Grant]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]''), [[Sarah Jane Smith]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]''), [[Adric]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]''), [[Peri Brown]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]''), [[Mel]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]''), [[Grace Holloway]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''), [[Jack Harkness]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]''), [[Astrid Peth]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]''), [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]''), and [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] (whose death was mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]''). Several more characters are shown and mentioned as well, including [[David Campbell]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]''), [[Clifford Jones]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]''), [[Nyssa]], [[Tegan Jovanka]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]''), [[Yrcanos]], [[Kiv]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]''), [[Rose Tyler]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]''), [[River Song]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]''), and [[John Benton]], [[Liz Shaw]], [[Mike Yates]], Jo Grant, the [[Third Doctor]], the [[Fourth Doctor]], the [[Sixth Doctor]], and the [[Ninth Doctor]], all of whom were in attendance of the funeral of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
* An enormous number of previous companions and their departures are shown as the Doctor uses the Once More With Feeling on himself, including [[Susan Foreman]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') [[Zoe Heriot]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') [[Jo Grant]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'') [[Sarah Jane Smith]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hand of Fear (TV story)|The Hand of Fear]]'') [[Adric]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') [[Peri Brown]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]'') [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'') [[Grace Holloway]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') [[Jack Harkness]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') [[Astrid Peth]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]'') [[Amy Pond]], [[Rory Williams]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'') and [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] (whose death was mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]''). Several more characters are shown and mentioned as well, including [[David Campbell]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') [[Clifford Jones]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'') [[Nyssa]], [[Tegan Jovanka]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') [[Yrcanos]], [[Kiv]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Mindwarp (TV story)|Mindwarp]]'') [[Rose Tyler]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') [[River Song]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'') [[John Benton]], [[Liz Shaw]], [[Mike Yates]], [[Jo Grant]], the [[Second Doctor]], the [[Third Doctor]], the [[Sixth Doctor]], the [[Seventh Doctor]], and the [[Ninth Doctor]].
* The Doctor uses Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's name, but changes his rank to Colonel. The Brigadier was a Colonel when the [[Second Doctor]] first met him, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'') with another character noting that, at this time, the ''real'' Lethbridge-Stewart is on manoeuvres in Salisbury Plains.
* The Doctor mentions his [[cheesemaking]] degree. ([[TV]]: ''[[The God Complex (TV story)|The God Complex]]'')
* The Doctor keeps a [[satsuma]] in his [[The Doctor's pockets|pocket]]; his [[Tenth Doctor|previous incarnation]] had come across [[Howard (The Christmas Invasion)|someone else who did this]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'')
* At the Brigadier's funeral, Benton commands the UNIT soldiers, "Five rounds rapid!", which is what the Brigadier said to Jenkins in [[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]''.
* The Doctor speaks [[Baby (language)|Baby]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'', ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')
* The Doctor mentions the [[Roswell crash]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'')
* The Doctor mentions briefly spending time in [[Bethlem Royal Hospital|Bedlam]], and also meeting [[Peter Streete]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'')
* The Doctor rediscovers [[The Doctor's recorder|his recorder]] in his [[The Doctor's pockets|pocket]] and plays ''[[Three Blind Mice]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (TV story)|The Power of the Daleks]]'')
* The Doctor finds the [[fast return switch]] on the [[TARDIS console]] and remarks on how he hasn't used it since it got stuck and tried to drag him back to the beginning of the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]'')


== Audio release ==
== Editions published outside Britain ==
''to be added''
* Published in the USA by Broadway Books in 2013 as a paperback edition.
* Published in the Czech Republic by Jota in 2014 as a hardback edition.
* Published in Brazil by Suma de Letras in 2015 as a paperback edition.
* Published in China by New Star Press in 2019 as a paperback edition.
 
== Audiobook ==
* This novel was released as an audiobook on [[4 July (releases)|4 July]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]] complete and unabridged by [[BBC Audio]] and read by [[Frances Barber]].
 
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Shroud of Sorrow was the fifty-fourth novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by Tommy Donbavand and featured the Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald.

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

23 November 1963

It is the day after John F. Kennedy's assassination and the faces of the dead are everywhere. PC Reg Cranfield sees his late father in the mists along Totter's Lane. Reporter Mae Callon sees her grandmother in a coffee stain on her desk. FBI Special Agent Warren Skeet finds his long-dead partner staring back at him from raindrops on a window pane.

The faces begin to talk and scream and push through into our world as the alien Shroud begins to feast on the grief of a world in mourning. Can the Eleventh Doctor dig deep enough into his own sorrow to save mankind?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

After Clara and the Doctor help a ship to fly away from a world covered in a vast, bubble bath filled liquid, they are entailed in an adventure that involves them thwarting an alien's plot to send the whole world into grief. They end up meeting a news reporter and an FBI agent on 23 November 1963, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, who, along with an army of clowns, help the Doctor to stop the Shroud from draining the world full of happiness.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals imitated by the Shroud[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Foods and Beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor has a carrot in his pocket.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Of the three novels released in April 2013, this is the only one to feature Clara Oswald and marks her literary debut. It is also, to date, the only full-length Eleventh Doctor novel to feature her.
  • At the time of its release, this was the only piece of spin-off fiction confirmed to feature Clara, as neither the Doctor Who Magazine nor Doctor Who Adventures comic strips, nor AudioGO talking books line had announced any upcoming stories featuring the companion.
  • The novel is set on and around 23rd November, 1963, the day Doctor Who debuted, and revisits Totter's Lane. A meta reference to this takes place when Doctor notes that it's Saturday teatime in Britain and "the fun is about to begin." Published in the 50th anniversary year, this is the only original novel published that year to have an explicit tie to the milestone. However, its sibling releases, Plague of the Cybermen and The Dalek Generation, released on the same day also, contain brief (and possibly coincidental) references to the anniversary: the former mentions Karn ahead of the premier of The Night of the Doctor, while the latter ends with the Doctor declaring "No more".
  • A character in this book, Reg Cranfield, is a policeman patrolling Totter's Lane, and is named for the actor who played the policeman at the beginning of "An Unearthly Child".
  • The wormhole in this story is described as unique; there was a tunnel that needed to be traversed, unlike other wormholes that were instantaneous, there was breathable air, it had a solid area to walk across (though it was described as uneven), it resembled a "dead" Time Vortex, and had the bodies of the Shroud's previous victims spread across its walls. The Doctor mentions that the bodies greatly resembled the bodies of Pompeii. (TV: The Fires of Pompeii, AUDIO: The Fires of Vulcan) People that travel across the wormhole also have a chance of experiencing a mental jump and going through what one of the victims went through before their death.
  • Various incarnations of the Doctor attended the Brigadier's funeral. Paragraphs of the book (without name) refer to the Second, Third, Sixth, Seventh and Ninth Doctor being present during the event, and the First Doctor once mentions that all of his incarnations were present at the funeral and behaved themselves, although some arguing did occur at the wake. (PROSE: The Gift) The Eleventh Doctor is made aware of the Brigadier's death in The Wedding of River Song, however the Seventh Doctor appeared to be aware of the circumstances in Battlefield.
  • This was chronologically the last BBC New Series Adventures novel to date to feature the Eleventh Doctor, the other two novels released at the same time taking place prior to Clara becoming a companion. (A later release, Tales of Trenzalore was a short story collection, not a novel.)

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Editions published outside Britain[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Published in the USA by Broadway Books in 2013 as a paperback edition.
  • Published in the Czech Republic by Jota in 2014 as a hardback edition.
  • Published in Brazil by Suma de Letras in 2015 as a paperback edition.
  • Published in China by New Star Press in 2019 as a paperback edition.

Audiobook[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Audiobook cover

    Audiobook cover

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

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