Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel

Nov 5, 2025 6:32 AM

Author:Jonathan Morris,Clare Corbett

‘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.

Touched by an Angel features the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television. A complete and unabridged reading by Clare Corbett.

Reviews

Langley's detailed descriptions of war blaze with brilliance

—— Arifa Akbar , Independent

A compelling portrait of a man in search of his lost self

—— Nick Rennison , Sunday Times

Beautifully written and vividly imagined, this is an impressive achievement

—— Jessica Mann , Literary Review

Lee Langley's big, ambitious new novel is a riveting read... and a deeply moving human story

—— Deborah Moggach

A lovely novel... fragile and beautiful and so finely wrought

—— Ruth Padel

Her fiction often depicts an interplay of past and present, and here it is used to stunning effect

—— Sarah Lawson , The Tablet

The style is graceful and deliciously readable, and the novel ends with an unforgettably eerie and moving image'

—— Independent

The whodunit is a mere pretext for witty debate

—— New Yorker

Subtle, funny and chilling, this delicious novel of music and murder unfolds among composers and critics of the 1910s and 1920s. Stace plays his deadly variations with real brio in a richly entertaining performance

—— i

A baroque intellectual thriller, wittily erudite and psychologically acute. Jessold joins Thomas Mann's Adrian Leverkühn and Randall Jarrell's Gottfried Rosenbaum in the gallery of memorable composers in fiction

—— Alex Ross, author of The Rest is Noise

This story - often fun, sometimes sad, always bookish - deals with big issues...Rebecca Makkai's literary debut will appeal to young adults and readers of adult literary fiction

—— We Love This Book

In Makkai's picaresque first novel, Lucy, a 26-year-old children's librarian, "borrows" her favorite patron, bright, book-loving 10-year-old Ian, after his fundamentalist parents enroll him in a program meant to "cure" his nascent homosexuality.

—— Booklist

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