The Stranger (novel)

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The Stranger was an erotic novel written by Portia Da Costa, and was released under the Black Lace line of books. It was published in 2012 by Ebury Publishing, manager of the prose rights to Doctor Who as well as the BBC Books brand.[1]

The main character of The Stranger was the young widow Claudia Marwood, who had been mentioned as one of the Eighth Doctor's companions, Claudia, in the BBC Books Eighth Doctor Adventures novels Father Time and The Gallifrey Chronicles. In the pattern of many BBC Books Short Trips stories which feature the Doctor without ever explicitly identifying them,[2] Claudia's brilliant but amnesiac love interest in The Stranger was the Eighth Doctor under the alias "Doctor Paul Bowman". Indeed, when Claudia was mentioned in Father Time, she was said to have spent time with the Doctor at a time when he had lost his memory, matching Bowman's appearance and characteristics in The Stranger.

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Once she had got over the initial shock of the young man's nudity, Claudia allowed herself to breathe properly again...

When Claudia finds a sexy stranger near her home she discovers that he has lost his memory along with his clothes.

Having turned her back on relationships since the death of her husband, Claudia finds herself scandalising her friends by inviting the stranger into her home and into her bed...

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Find out what happens in an alternate universe when a drop dead gorgeous amnesiac [who might once have been the Eighth Doctor Who, allegedly] turns up on the doorstep of beautiful and sensual widow Claudia Marwood

When a confused and mysterious young man stumbles into the life of the recently widowed Claudia, he reignites her sleeping sexuality. But is the handsome and angelic Paul really a combination of innocent and voluptuary, amnesiac and genius? Claudia's friends become involved in trying to decide whether or not he is to be trusted. As an erotic obsession flowers between Paul and Claudia, and all taboos are obliterated, his true identity no longer seems to matter.

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  • Paul gets skittish whenever the word "doctor" is mentioned.
  • Claudia ponders if Paul is an alien.
  • Claudia has a Jaguar which reminds Paul of his past.

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  1. BBC Press Office (22 June 2006). The Random House Group acquires majority shareholding in BBC Books. BBC. “BBC Books will become part of the Ebury Publishing Division of The Random House Group under Fiona MacIntyre, Publisher of the Ebury Publishing Division.”
  2. See also Many Happy Returns and Sprout Boy meets a Galaxy of Stars, in which Sylvester McCoy's and Peter Capaldi's characters, respectively, are recognised as the Doctor because the stories were released by publishers of Doctor Who like Ebury Publishing, namely Big Finish Productions and BBC One.
  3. As with The Wings of a Butterfly, since the first edition was not licensed in its use of the Eighth Doctor character, it is not covered on this wiki.
  4. So Vile a Sin in May 1997.

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