First Born (novel)

First Born
Main character(s):	Gwen Cooper Rhys Williams
Featuring:	Jack, Anwen
Main enemy:	Sebastian
Main setting:	Rawbone, 2010
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	James Goss
Release details
Release number:	16
Release date:	21 July 2011
Format:	Softcover Book
ISBN:	ISBN 1-84990-283-6
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You may be looking for the Doctor Who short story of the same name.

First Born was the sixteenth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series. It served as a prequel to TV: The New World.

Publisher's summary

Gwen and Rhys are on the run. Rhys was hoping this meant a windswept cottage on a cliff top, but he's had to settle for a miserable caravan in the isolated village of Rawbone. With the locals taking an unhealthy interest in their daughter, Gwen and Rhys start to realise that something is very wrong.

As they uncover the village's terrible past, Gwen discovers that Torchwood will never leave her behind, and now she and Rhys stand alone in defence of the Earth. And the children of Rawbone can only bring her closer to the secret forces that want her out of the way.

Plot

to be added

Characters

Torchwood

• Gwen Cooper
• Rhys Williams
• Anwen Williams

Inhabitants of Rawbone

• Josh
• Sasha
• Davydd
• Nerys
• Mrs. Meredith

Scions

• Sebastian
• Jenny
• Billy
• Sebastian II

Juniper Project

• Corporal Jasmine Bailey
• Elena Hilda Al-Qatari
• Eloise
• Tom
• PC Tony Brown

References

to be added

Notes

• This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.

The Audiobook cover.

Continuity

• Gwen has a nightmare about the death of Ianto Jones and Jack Harkness. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four)
• Gwen also has a nightmare about Abaddon's shadow (TV: End of Days), the Blaidd Drwg nuclear station (TV: Boom Town, PROSE: Another Life), the Large Hadron Collider (AUDIO: Lost Souls), cannibal cults (TV: Countrycide) and the 456. (TV: Children of Earth)

Audio release

• The story was released as an audiobook on download only from the AudioGo website read by Clare Corbett, Kai Owen, Katherine Fenton, Joe Jameson, Carole Boyd, Michael Stevens and Susie Riddell.

External links

• Official First Born page at Penguin Books