The Angel of Redemption (novel)
The Angel of Redemption was the sixth and final novel published in The Decades Collection on 26 October 2023 by Puffin Books to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who.
The novel was written by Nikita Gill and covered the 2010s and featured the Eleventh Doctor. It was comprised entirely of poetry, from the first-person perspective of the Weeping Angel who took Rory and Amy in TV: The Angels Take Manhattan, with a prose epilogue featuring the Doctor at St Paul's Cathedral switching to third-person.
Publisher's summary
A poem of tragedy and beauty...
The Weeping Angels are an ancient race of terrible power.
With the ability to propel their victims backwards in time, their true form is a mystery - they turn to stone on sight. So they wander the universe, cursed never to see one another.
But they see everything else: the whole course of time and space - even the journey of their deadliest enemy, the Doctor.
In this extraordinary, epic poem, the Weeping Angels sing the story of the years they've battled the Doctor, and everything in between, as - like a Greek Chorus - they tell the world their tragic tale.
Plot
to be added
Characters
Worldbuilding
- The Angel sees a statue of a man with a discus in the British Museum.
- The Victoria Memorial and the angel of peace are both Weeping Angels.
Notes
to be added
Continuity
- The Angel lives in the graveyard that took Rory Williams and Amy Pond, and remembers taking them when the "lonely god" visited New York in 2012. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan)
- Inside the Doctor's mind, the other Angel forces the Doctor to revisit his "last memory" with Rose Tyler, (TV: Doomsday) having to erase Donna Noble's memories, (TV: Journey's End) and Martha Jones's decision to leave him. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)
- Gallifrey has silver-leaved trees. (TV: The Sensorites)
- The child on Gallifrey lives in a little house, halfway up a mountain. (PROSE: Lungbarrow) He runs down the mountain to a cave. (TV: The Time Monster)
External links
- Official The Angel of Redemption page at Penguin Books
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