Human Nature (novel)

Publisher's Summary
'Who’s going to save us this time?'

April, 1914. The inhabitants of the little Norfolk town of Farringham are enjoying an early summer, unaware that war is on the way. Amongst them is Dr John Smith, a short, middle-aged history teacher from Aberdeen. He’s having a hard time with his new post as house master at Hulton Academy for Boys, a school dedicated to producing military officers.

Bernice Summerfield is enjoying her holiday in the town, getting over the terrible events that befell her in France. But then she meets a future Doctor, and things start to get dangerous very quickly. With the Doctor she knows gone, and only a suffragette and an elderly rake for company, can Benny fight off a vicious alien attack? And will Dr Smith be able to save the day?

Main Characters
Bernice Summerfield
 * Is now 32 years old.
 * She isn't convinced she'll ever have children.
 * Benny's still struggling with the loss of Guy de Carnac though she doubts she loved him.

Wolsey
 * Joan gives Wolsey to the Doctor so he'll never be alone on his travels.

Supporting Characters
Aubertides
 * August, Greeneye, Laylock, Serif, Aphasia, Hoff

In the beer tent
 * Jac, Sarah, Lucy

The boys at Hulton Academy
 * Timothy
 * Hutchinson (senior captain)
 * Alton (a Time Lord)
 * Phipps
 * Anand (Tim's friend)
 * Captain Merryweather
 * Abbot, Andrew, Clive, Ian, Hadliegh-Scott

People of Farringham
 * Jill and Jenny (two housewives)
 * Alexander Shuttleworth (Benny's landlord)
 * Mrs Windrush (housewife)
 * Mr Hodges (greengrocer)
 * Constance Harding (suffraget)
 * Mr Sangster (runs the art shop)
 * Alec (works at the Museum)
 * Sergent Abeland (police officer)
 * Constable Bickerston (police officer)
 * Nathan Bottomley (black smith)
 * Horace (telephone box operator)
 * Richard Hadleman

School teachers
 * George Rocastle, MBE (headmaster)
 * Mrs Denman (biology)
 * Mr Challpner
 * Mrs Joan Redfern (science)
 * Mr Moffat (bursar)
 * Miss Robertson

Soldiers outside the time barrier
 * Major Wrightson, Stanley, Torrence

Continuity

 * Death takes Smith as the life the Doctor promised her in Timewyrm: Revelation.


 * In the Doctor Who: The TV Movie the Doctor kisses Grace twice, in Human Nature he kisses Joan 6 times.