Touched by an Angel (novel)

Touched by an Angel was the forty-sixth book in the BBC New Series Adventures line.

Publisher's summary
"The past is like a foreign country. Nice to visit, but you really wouldn’t want to live there."

In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Her husband Mark is still grieving. He receives a battered envelope, posted eight years ago, containing a set of instructions with a simple message: "You can save her."

As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca, it’s up to the Doctor, Amy and Rory to save the whole world. Because this time the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon.

Characters

 * Eleventh Doctor
 * Amy Pond
 * Rory Williams
 * Mark Whitaker
 * Rebecca Whitaker

Continuity

 * The Weeping Angels first appeared in DW: Blink, and later featured in DW: The Time of Angels and DW: Flesh and Stone.
 * The Doctor uses the timey-wimey detector to locate a Weeping Angel. He previously utilised it in DW: Blink.
 * After its first appearance, it was destroyed in NSA: Ghosts of India. This indicates that the Doctor built a new, identical device.
 * The method in which the Doctor defeats the Angels echoes DW: Blink.
 * Future Rory is forced to wear a Fez on orders from the Doctor. (DW: The Big Bang)
 * The Doctor says that the Weeping Angels "should know better than to put [him] in a trap". (DW: The Time of Angels)

Timeline
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