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Doctor Who: The Day She Saved the Doctor: Four Stories from the TARDIS Hardcover – 8 Mar. 2018

by Susan Calman (Author), Jenny T. Colgan (Author), Jacqueline Rayner (Author),

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The Doctor's Companion: A person who explores time and space with the Doctor, fights enemies with the Doctor, and often has to save the Doctor's life.

If it wasn't for the companions, the Doctor probably wouldn't have made it out of so many scrapes. To celebrate the formidable women who have travelled in the TARDIS, dive into four fantastic new adventures with the Doctor, starring Rose, Sarah-Jane, Clara and Bill.

Written by Jenny Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Dorothy Koomson and Susan Calman, these stories are the perfect way to celebrate the Doctor's fantastic female heroines, for fans of all ages.

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Reading age

7 - 12 years
Print length

192 pages
Language

English
Grade level

4 - 6
Dimensions

15.24 x 1.91 x 23.5 cm
Publisher

BBC Children's Books
Publication date

8 Mar. 2018
ISBN-10

1405929979
ISBN-13

978-1405929974
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A companion: explores time and space with the Doctor, gets into trouble with the Doctor, fights enemies with the Doctor . . . And - more often than not - has to save his life.

Here are four fantastic new adventures with the Doctor, starring Rose, Sarah-Jane, Clara and Bill. Publishing on International Women's Day in March 2018, it will also be the perfect way to prepare for Jodie Whittaker's first ever female Doctor.

Written by Jenny Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Dorothy Koomson and Susan Calman, these stories are a celebration of the Doctor's fantastic female friends, for fans of all ages.

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A companion: explores time and space with the Doctor, gets into trouble with the Doctor, fights enemies with the Doctor . . . And - more often than not - has to save his life.

Here are four fantastic new adventures with the Doctor, starring Rose, Sarah-Jane, Clara and Bill. Publishing on International Women's Day in March 2018, it will also be the perfect way to prepare for Jodie Whittaker's first ever female Doctor.

Written by Jenny Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Dorothy Koomson and Susan Calman, these stories are a celebration of the Doctor's fantastic female friends, for fans of all ages.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ BBC Children's Books; 1st edition (8 Mar. 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1405929979
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1405929974
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 7 - 12 years
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.91 x 23.5 cm

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Dorothy Koomson
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Dorothy Koomson is the award-winning author of 15 novels and has been making up stories since she was 13 when she used to share her stories with her convent school friends. Her published titles include: Every Smile You Fake, My Other Husband, Tell Me Your Secret, The Brighton Mermaid, The Woman He Loved Before, Goodnight, Beautiful and The Chocolate Run.
Dorothy’s first novel, The Cupid Effect, was published in 2003 (when she was quite a bit older than 13). Her third book, My Best Friend’s Girl, was selected for the Richard & Judy Summer Reads of 2006 and went on to sell over 500,000 copies. While her fourth novel, Marshmallows For Breakfast, has sold in excess of 250,000 copies. Dorothy’s books, The Ice Cream Girls and The Rose Petal Beach were both shortlisted for the popular fiction category of the British Book Awards in 2010 and 2013, respectively.
Dorothy’s novels have been translated into over 30 languages, and a TV adaptation loosely based on The Ice Cream Girls was shown on ITV1 in 2013. After briefly living in Australia, Dorothy now lives in Brighton.
In 2019 Dorothy was awarded the Image Award by The Black British Business Awards to celebrate and honour her achievements.
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well written exclusive stories!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 January 2019

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an awesome book! i finished it quite quick because I'm a fast reader but it was a great read!

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A Solid Set - Good Audio Reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 September 2021

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I bought the audio version so my review is based on that. Overall is a nice set if you like these characters.

Rose's story was easily the weakest of the collection for me, it just doesn't really work. Though Rachel did the best she could with the reading.
Sarah's story is a great classic Sarah story that highlight's the characters feminism. The reading by Yasmine (who played Maria in SJA) adds a lovely extra level to this story.
Clara's story is with 11 which feels like a pairing we don't see too often, it's a solid story. Decent reading, no real comments on it.
Bill's story is probably my favourite of the set, it just so perfectly captures the character and puts the spotlight solely on her and explores some of her life beyond the Doctor. Pippa does a good reading of it, evoking Pearl Mackie whilst making it her own.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 June 2019

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Excellent book great for any doctor who/Susan calman fan

Bill's Was The Best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2024

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2023 52 Book Challenge - 22) A Body Positive Message

This is a collection of 4 short stories focusing on the female companions (Sarah Jane, Rose, Clara, and Bill) of the Doctor to celebrate International Women's Day.

By far, my favourite was Bill's, which delves into Bill's upcoming date with Lou, a girl that Bill had mentioned in passing in the show as somebody she fancied so she gave her extra chips.

I liked Sarah Jane's which dealt with her fear of being blind and her having to face that fear to save the day.

I found Clara and the 11th Doctor getting stuck in a maze a little boring, and Rose and the 9th Doctor (it was actually difficult to tell if this story was with the 9th or the 10th Doctor, and I got that it was the 11th Doctor when he was described as "grumpy" so that will tell you the quality of characterisation) dealt with a man who was a time puncture. Rose attends a ball in 1812 Russia but it reads like she wears Victorian Britain ball gowns. It felt like it could either have been set in the correct era, or she could have worn Russian gowns. It wouldn't have annoyed me so much, but most of Rose's story literally talked about outfits.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2018

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A gift that was happily received. Four wonderful stories.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 March 2018

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Fabulous to inspire female fans of Dr Who

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They look good stories.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2018

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Looking forward to reading this book.

Mazes, cults, time windows and jackets

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 April 2018

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This is a collection of four short stories to celebrate the Doctor’s female companions. They are all fairly entertaining little reads and are aimed, primarily, at a young adult audience.

Each tale is from the perspective of the companion and generally features a situation where the Doctor might have overreached himself. However, like several of these ‘themed’ Doctor Who story collections of recent years it isn’t thematically stringent. Despite the title the emphasis isn’t really on a companion ‘saving’ the Doctor; which, let’s face it, they do quite often. In the third story, for example, Clara and the Doctor get caught in a type of trap and it just happens to be Clara who works out the solution to escape. Arguably she has saved the Doctor much more convincingly multiple times in her role as ‘the impossible girl’. It is only Sarah-Jane who out-and-out directly saves the Doctor in this collection. The argument for Bill doing so here would be tenuous indeed. Even so, Bill's story is the more inventive and original of the four.

Instead the collection is more about celebrating four strong women who have joined the Doctor on his adventures. There is also a variety of convincing female villains for them to face.

The drawback is, perhaps, that the book has really opted only to feature four of the companions and those that are probably most known and/or popular. It’s a fairly short book so it could definitely have incorporated more tales featuring some of the other companions.

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Eduardo Rodriguez

A great read.

Reviewed in the United States on 27 February 2020

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A must for every Dr. Who fan

Kenneth Hanson

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Reviewed in Canada on 27 August 2018

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Looking forward to reading it

Greg Chang

A good collection of stories starring four Companions mostly from the ...

Reviewed in the United States on 22 March 2018

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A good collection of stories starring four Companions mostly from the new Doctor Who series and Sarah Jane Smith from the classic series. As with most anthologies, some stories worked better than others, but it was a fast read and the pros outweighed the cons. Would I liked to have seen stories starring other Companions? Of course I would, and I hope to see them in the future.

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4 gre as t stories

Reviewed in the United States on 10 October 2019

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Women heroes of dr who

Baruch Geshem

... in this anthology set are four of my absolute favorite companions, I going the first two stories to ...

Reviewed in the United States on 30 March 2018

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While the four companions featured in this anthology set are four of my absolute favorite companions, I going the first two stories to be lacking in correct characterizations and plot; the latter two stories, however were excellent and did a great job of portraying the characters. I love the idea behind this set and think it was a fantastic idea.

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