The World of Lies was a children's novel by Stewart Sheargold. It is relevant to Tardis Wiki due to featuring settings and characters which first appeared in the story It's Raining Again by Sheargold and Paul Magrs for the charity publication Perfect Timing II and went on to feature in several licensed Doctor Who-related works, most prominently the Bernice Summerfield story Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death [+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death (audio story)"].
It was written to be the first in a series of novels starring character Chloe Hattersley. As of December 2024[update], no further novels have been released.
Publisher's summary
When Chloe Hattersley's mother dies after an illness, she must pack up her old life and journey into the north of England, to begin again with her strict aunt and adulterous father.
But something goes terribly wrong and instead she finds herself in the strange world of Egortiye -- where the seasons are prisons controlled by criminal kings and queens: a dangerous land where ideas are powerful and altering, where deceit rules, and the worst thing is to have no purpose.
With only Brandon Tuck, the enchanted boy-faun, and the manipulative gaoler, The Spinster of Seasons, to help her, Chloe must make a perilous journey through the seasons to find the Backstage Door for the way home.
But Chloe is being hunted. The sinister Man with 8 Faces wants her skin, and he'll tear the world apart to get to her.
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Continuity
- The Spinster and the Queen of Spring previously appeared with the same names in AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death [+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death (audio story)"]. In the same story, Egortiye appeared as the Spinster's Prison and the Man with 8 Faces appeared as the Player. The Duke of Autumn, the King of Summer, and the Matriarch of Winter were also mentioned in that story.
- A character resembling the Duke of Autumn appeared in PROSE: The Scarlet Shadow [+]Loading...["The Scarlet Shadow (short story)"] as the Archduke of Autumn.
- In Egortiye's original appearance in It's Raining Somewhere in Perfecting Timing II, the Duke of Autumn was implied to be the Tremas Master. As such, the Tremas Master's prison in PROSE: The Velvet Dark [+]Loading...["The Velvet Dark (short story)"] resembles the prison of the Duke of Autumn.
- In this novel, Egortiye is indicated to be a liminal realm accessed by coming close to death. Similarly, AUDIO: The Darkening Eye [+]Loading...["The Darkening Eye (audio story)"] depicting the threshold between life and death as a liminal realm resembling an autumnal forest, similar to the Prison.
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