Touched by an Angel (novel)

Touched by an Angel
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eleventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Amy Pond Rory Williams
Main enemy:	Weeping Angels
Main setting:	1994, London 2003, Chilbury 2011, London
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Jonathan Morris
Release details
Release number:	46
Release date:	23 June 2011
Format:	Hardcover, 237 pages
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84990-234-2
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Touched by an Angel was the tenth Eleventh Doctor novel released.

Publisher's summary

"The past is like a foreign country. Nice to visit, but you really wouldn’t want to live there."

In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Her husband Mark is still grieving. He receives a battered envelope, posted eight years ago, containing a set of instructions with a simple message: "You can save her."

As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca, it’s up to the Doctor, Amy and Rory to save the whole world. Because this time the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon.

Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Amy Pond
• Rory Williams
• Mark Whitaker
• Rebecca Whitaker
• Frank Pollard
• Siobhan
• Sophie
• Lucy
• Antony
• Jenny

References

• The Doctor finds a named The Venusian Book of Calm in his coat pocket.
• The Doctor claims that the timey-wimey detector's ability to boil an egg is not a side-effect, but rather a feature.
• The Weeping Angels have access to psychic paper, which according to the Doctor, is "child's play" for them.
• The Doctor refers to Mark's letter to himself as a "Sally Sparrow survival kit".
• There are cardboard cut-outs of the Teletubbies outside Woolworths.
• Mark walks past a Dixons in 1994.
• Mrs Doubtfire and Groundhog Day were films that were released in 1994.
• Amy likens the Doctor chasing Mark's train in the TARDIS to a scene in Harry Potter.
• Mark works for Pollard & Boyce.
• Mark remarks that his wedding has turned into an episode of the Chuckle Brothers.

Notes

• The Blinovitch Limitation Effect is explored in detail. The two Marks create an energy field simply by being in the same room, and the Doctor uses his Sonic Screwdriver to lessen the effect on future Rory, allowing him to make contact with his past self without consequence.

The Audiobook cover.

• This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.

Continuity

• The Weeping Angels first appeared in TV: Blink, and were last seen in TV: The God Complex.
• The Doctor uses the timey-wimey detector to locate a Weeping Angel. He previously utilised it in TV: Blink.
  • After its first appearance, it was destroyed in PROSE: Ghosts of India. This indicates that the Doctor built a new, identical device.
• The method in which the Doctor defeats the Angels echoes TV: Blink.
• Future Rory is forced to wear a Fez on orders from the Doctor who declares him "Fez Rory". (TV: The Big Bang)
• The Doctor says that the Weeping Angels "should know better than to put [him] in a trap". (TV: The Time of Angels)

Audio release

• The story was released as an audiobook on 6x CD read by Clare Corbett.
• The audiobook is also available as a download from the AudioGo website.