Doctor Who_ The Awakening - Eric Pringle [0]
When the Type-40 machine comes to a rest, the view on the scanner screen only serves to confirm Tegan’s rather low expecations of the TARDIS’s performance.
The most sensible course of action would be to leave immediately – but despite Turlough’s protests the Doctor rushes out to take on a seemingly hopeless rescue mission . . .
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DOCTOR WHO
THE AWAKENING
Based on the BBC television serial by Eric Pringle by arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation ERIC PRINGLE
Number 95
in the
Doctor Who Library
A TARGET BOOK
published by
The Paperback Division of
W. H. Allen - LONDON
1985
A Target Book
Published in 1985
by the Paperback Division of W.H. Allen & Co. PLC
44 Hill Street, London W1X 8LB
Novelisation copyright © Eric Pringle 1985
Original script copyright © Eric Pringle 1984
‘Doctor Who’ series copyright © British Broadcasting Corporation 1984, 1985
The BBC producer of The Awakening was John Nathan-Turner, the director was Michael Owen Morris Printed and bound in Great Britain by Anchor Brendon Ltd, Tiptree, Essex
ISBN 0 426 20158 2
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
CONTENTS
1 An Unexpected Aura
2 The Devil in the Church
3 The Body in the Barn
4 Of Psychic Things
5 ‘A Particularly Nasty Game’
6 The Awakening
7 Tegan the Queen
8 Stone Monkey
9 Servant of the Malus
10 Fulfillment
1
An Unexpected Aura
Somewhere, horses’ hooves were drumming the ground.
The woman’s name was Jane Hampden, and that noise worried her. She was a schoolteacher, but just now her village school and its unwilling pupils were far from her thoughts: her mind raced with problems and uncertainties, making her head ache; she felt that if she did not share them with someone soon, she would go mad.
Jane was looking for farmer Ben Wolsey, but she could not find him anywhere. That was another problem, because time was short, and there were horses coming.
It was Jane’s belief that the village of Little Hodcombe was being torn apart. She felt instinctively that those horses had something to do with it, like the recent bursts of violence and the cries and shouts which so frequently disturbed the peaceful countryside. She was sure, too, that the mysterious disappearance of her old friend Andrew Verney was connected in some way.
And there was another thing which bothered her, which she found more difficult to put into words. In a quiet, remote place like Little Hodcombe, tucked away as it was deep in the lush Dorset hinterland, far away from cities or politics or any sort of world-shattering event, it was as normal as daylight that everybody should know pretty well everything about everybody else: you didn’t mind your own business here so much as you minded other people’s.
Jane was no different from the rest in this respect, and yet suddenly she felt that she didn’t know anything any more.
All at once, the place and its people seemed somehow strange, as if that normal, everyday life of thatched houses and quiet corners and fields and streams which composed Little Hodcombe was slipping away and being replaced by a new, nameless void,