05 November 2013

Review: The New Adventures: Another Girl, Another Planet by Martin Day and Len Beech

Mass market paperback, 245 pages
Published 1998

Acquired and read July 2013
The New Adventures: Another Girl, Another Planet
by Martin Day and Len Beech

In terms of emotional complexity, this is one of the best Bernice Summerfield New Adventures-- on the scale of insight into adult, human emotions, this is like the excellent Professor Bernice Summerfield anthologies (such as A Life of Surprises and A Life Worth Living) later published by Big Finish. The relationship between Bernice and her new "old" friend, and between that friend and her ex, feel startlingly real. Unfortunately, in terms of plot, it's a bit of a non-starter-- another dig with a mysterious backer goes awry, blah blah blah, someone's a traitor, blah blah blah...

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