Status Updates From Doctor Who: Eternity Weeps

Is it horrible to say that this could be my favourite title of any book ever?

The whole thing between Bernice and Jason was weird. Met in Death and Diplomacy, married in Happy Endings, breaking up by Eternity Weeps. All those books are not very far apart...talk about a whirlwind Hate Love Hate! My theory is that they suddenly decided Bernice should be single, when she spun off into her own series, when the BBC 'reclaimed' the Doctor.

It’s possible this was my first encounter with Bernice Summerfield; if not, it was close. Over twenty years ago, I would find, and read, the Dr Who novels from Virgin Books in random order. Sadly, some of them have pages that detach from the cover…and my copy of Damaged Goods really IS damaged goods (though it was a great day, stumbling on it at a remote used-book store all those years ago).

This is an odd choice for a Doctor Who re-read; but there are a few scenes I want to revisit, and we’ll see what the rest is like. When I got back into Doctor Who, it was via the novels, around 1999. So, the Virgin paperbacks were already getting a bit scarce, and I had to figure out that this one and some others were actually Who novels, because they took his logo off the covers!