Doctor Who Borrowed Time, Naomi A. Alderman
Doctor Who Borrowed Time, Naomi A. Alderman
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Doctor Who: Borrowed Time

Author: Naomi A. Alderman

Narrator: Meera Syal

Unabridged: 6 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Whatever you borrow must be repaid...

Andrew Brown never has enough time. No time to call his sister, or to prepare for that important presentation at the bank where he works. The train's late, the lift jams. If only he'd had just a little more time. And time is the business of Mr Symington and Mr Blenkinsop. They'll lend him some - at a very reasonable rate of interest. Can the Doctor, Amy and Rory stop them before they cash in their investments?

Read by Meera Syal, this is a thrilling race against the clock from Naomi A. Alderman, the Baileys Prize winning author of The Power, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.

‘Alderman is a fluent and powerful writer’ - Sunday Times

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on July 24, 2021

This is based on the television series. This one has the Eleventh Doctor along with Amy and Rory. In this one, our heroes set out to stop a bank from collapsing. They didn't know that employees of this bank are borrowing time from lenders and these loans are to be repaid at extravagant rates that co......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on April 06, 2019

This starts with the wrong biscuit a digestive that far to quickly sinks to the bottom of the cup. From then on Mr Brown 's life is running around like a headless chicken in ever decreasing circles sweaty late all the time. I know that lot of Jobs in office environments are exactly this for me sound l......more

Goodreads review by Ken on October 31, 2018

Do you ever wish you could just have a little more time to get everything done? Would you consider borrowing some? Using the banking crisis as an analogy, this excellent 11th Doctor story simplifies how easy it is to run up a big debt without properly looking at the Terms and Conditions. Not only is......more

Goodreads review by Steve on April 04, 2020

OK, that was a fun and entertaining jaunt, and a nice .. and oh-so-welcome ... diversion (at, alas, a time when diversions are uniquely valuable). I'm not sure you'd need to be Doctor Who fan or reader to enjoy this. It's a fully accessible, rollicking, sci-fi (time-travel, duh!) saga, with a healthy......more

Goodreads review by D.L. on October 13, 2012

This is a story of investment banking, the white-collar rat race, fraud, debt, the subjectivity of value, and the dangers of compound interest... sort of. It’s not about money or stocks, though. It’s about time -- using it, managing it, borrowing it, trading it, and paying it back -- with interest,......more


Quotes

Borrowed Time is a witty, creative and exciting tale of manipulation by an alien intelligence, in which the real villain happens to be compound interest. http://www.doctorwhoreviews.co.uk