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Doctor Who: Rip Tide (Doctor Who Novellas)
  
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Doctor Who: Rip Tide (Doctor Who Novellas) (Hardcover)
by Steve Gallagher (Foreword), Louise Cooper (Author)
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Product details
  • Hardcover: 120 pages
  • Publisher: Telos Publishing Ltd (31 Jan 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 190388912X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903889121
  • Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 14.8 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 945,143 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Unsettling things are afoot in a sleepy Cornish village. Strangers are hanging about the harbour and a mysterious object is retrieved from the sea bed. Then the locals start getting sick. Could this have anything to do with the alluringly beautiful Ruth who local lifeboatman Steve has taken a shine to...or could the other stranger, a man calling himself the Doctor, be somehow involved? And why is Ruth both drawn and terrified by the sea? The Doctor is perhaps the only person who can help, but can he discover the truth in time?

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Breath of Fresh Air, 18 Mar 2003
It is difficult to disagree with Stephen Gallagher when he notes that 'Rip Tide' is written in a "deceptively easy style": prose as unassuming as Louise Cooper's is trickier than it looks to put together, requiring a great deal of confidence and restraint on the part of the author. Behind the apparent transparency and simplicity of 'Rip Tide' is an emotional and thematic richness which a lesser author would have overplayed, with damaging results. Cooper’s clever and subtle hand succeeds in balancing the complexity and tumult of setting, characterization, and atmosphere with the open and direct, summer-sky clearness of her prose. ‘Rip Tide’ is a pitch-perfect amalgamation of style and substance, and one that is deeply satisfying and enjoyable to read. Something about the light touch - and the freshness - of Cooper's take on Doctor Who leaves the reader revived and invigorated.

'Rip Tide' is a confined, local novella - its effects do not spread far beyond the small coastal town - but a novella which uses its small setting to great dramatic effect. The tight, controlled nature of ‘Rip Tide’ is its strength – the cast is small, allowing Cooper to bring the two or three central characters (Doctor included) vividly to life, without worrying about neglecting a huge cast of page-wasting extras. Nina, a slightly rebellious, slightly angst-ridden teenage girl, is the point around which the narrative turns, acting as our eyes on the action of the novella, and most importantly as our viewpoint on the mysterious, handsome stranger recently arrived in the small Cornish town. Through Nina we are introduced to the Doctor, and it is as though we are meeting this old, familiar character for the first time. The bafflement and perplexity felt by the inquisitive, teenage, amateur-sleuth as she learns about the Doctor, and about what he does, is described cogently, and without hyperbole. Cooper formulates a human, naturalistic, and believable scenario around the meeting of a young girl with a millennia-old Time Lord: strange things seem stranger than ever when they occur in a familiar (and excellently evoked) settin