The Day She Saved the Doctor
When Jodie Whittaker was announced as the new Doctor, and the first ever female incarnation of the character, half the world lost its mind. But what has become clearer in the last couple of years is that we need better female role models in both literature and the screen.
So the news that Penguin Random House is to publish the first ever all female authored collection of Doctor Who short stories reached us earlier today, we were thrilled to bring you the news!
The publication, The Day She Saved the Doctor, will be released on March 8th 2018 in hardback for International Women’s Day and is available on pre-order from today. The BBC book is likely to retail at £12.99 and is aimed at primary school aged children and teenage readers, as well as Doctor Who fans of all ages and genders.
The publication comes as we mark the year in which the role of the Doctor is taken up by a female actor for the first time in the show’s 50 year history. Ardent viewers will know that Time Lords are much less hung up on gender than us mere mortals, we just wonder if she’ll be disappointed not to be ginger again!
The collection will feature stories by Jenny Colgan, Dorothy Koomson, Susan Calman, and regular Doctor Who author Jacqueline Rayner too!
And while on the subject of Doctor Who, just a couple more weeks now until the regeneration is aired, in the Christmas Day special “Twice Upon a Time”.
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