Doctor Who: Shroud Of Sorrow

Name: Doctor Who: Shroud Of Sorrow
Brand: Penguin Random House UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Tommy Donbavand
ISBN: 9781471329890

Author: Tommy Donbavand

Narrator: Frances Barber

Unabridged: 5 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: BBC Digital Audio

Published: 07/01/2013

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

23 November, 1963. It is the day after John F. Kennedy's assassination - and the faces of the dead are everywhere. PC Reg Cranfield sees his late father in the mists along Totter's Lane. Reporter Mae Callon sees her grandmother in a coffee stain on her desk. FBI Special Agent Warren Skeet finds his long-dead partner staring back at him from raindrops on a window pane. Then the faces begin to talk, and scream... and push through into our world. As the alien Shroud begins to feast on the grief of a world in mourning, can the Doctor dig deep enough into his own sorrow to save mankind? Shroud of Sorrow is read by Frances Barber, who played Madame Kovarian in the Doctor Who episodes A Good Man Goes to War and The Wedding of River Song.

About Tommy Donbavand

Tommy Donbavand is the author of the Scream Street series and the Too Ghoul for School series. An actor and writer for several educational magazines, he also teaches writing and storytelling workshops. He lives in Northumberland, England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ken on March 16, 2020

A bold and just about successful attempt to connect both the aftermath of President Kennedy's assassination and the very first episode of Doctor Who during the shows 50th anniversary year. The series famously aired for the first time the day after the dreadful events in Dallas and the opening scene o......more

Goodreads review by Kitty on April 15, 2013

Why You Should Read ‘Doctor Who: The Shroud of Sorrow’ by Tommy Donbanvand: -The first scene opens up at 76 Totters Lane (Foreman’s junkyard) JUST after the the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara have left for Doctor Who’s first adventure ever. -Clara changing clothes in front of the Doctor and making him......more

Goodreads review by Jim on July 26, 2017

A book based on the television series. This one has the eleventh Doctor and Clara as his companion. This takes place right after President Kennedy was assassinated. The world is in mourning and a new enemy feeds off this. The Doctor is the only one who can stop this enemy. The first half of this book......more

Goodreads review by Tomáš on January 20, 2015

Na začátku jsem byl nadšený, ale během příběhu to tak nějak vyprchalo. Jako televizní epizoda by byl Závoj smutku spíše průměrný díl a od knihy jsem tak nějak očekával, že se nenechá omezit tím, co lze ukázat na obrazovce. Pro: + Při četbě doslova slyšíte Doktorův (Smithův) hlas a snadno si představít......more

Goodreads review by Max on July 23, 2017

This is a bit of an odd book for me. The first half or thereabouts is pretty fun. The monsters, the Shroud, feed on human grief and have come to Earth on November 23, 1963 to eat everybody saddened by the Kennedy assassination. The Doctor and Clara have to stop this new threat, of course, and they g......more

Quotes

Shroud of Sorrow is one of the best Doctor Who novels in memory... a great and worthy story for the 50th Anniversary year. http://blogtorwho.blogspot.co.uk

Barber throws herself wholeheartedly into the project, vocalising sound effects such as “Flash!”, “Bang!” and “Putter, putter, chuff!” as well as providing decent imitations of Susan, the Second Doctor and Jo during flashbacks. http://www.sci-fi-online.com