The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (novelisation)

The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith is based upon the televised story of the same name. It is the first novelisation of a story from Series 3 of The Sarah Jane Adventures and the first published since Day of the Clown.
== Publisher's summary ==
Life on Earth can be an adventure, too. You just need to know where to look.
Sarah Jane is acting very suspiciously. When Luke, Clyde and Rani investigate, with the help of Mr Smith and K-9, they discover something unexpected — Sarah Jane has got a boyfriend and she's going to marry him! Of course, in Sarah Jane's life, things are not as they seem and some very special wedding guests ensure this is one day she will never forget!
== Chapter titles ==
# Follow That Car!
# Sarah Jane In Love
# The Terror Of Travast Polong
# The House Of Mystery
# The Bride of Chaos
# The Time Loop
# Peter's Story
# The Doctor Meets The Trickster
# Sarah Jane's Choice
# Inside The TARDIS
== Characters ==
* Sarah Jane Smith
* Luke Smith
* Rani Chandra
* Clyde Langer
* Tenth Doctor
* Peter Dalton
* Mr Smith
* The Trickster
* K9 Mark IV
* The Brigadier
== Worldbuilding ==
* K9 Mark IV tells Clyde Langer about "a hollow world called Zanak, a pirate planet that jumped through space around other planets to drain them dry; the terrifying Nimons and the Great Vampire; how the Sarah Jane had met the Doctor again after many years when the Krillitanes had come to Earth"
* The Registrar of Sarah Jane Smith's wedding is named Sandra Cho.
* Many of Sarah Jane's friends couldn't make it to the wedding because it was organised so fast.
** Mike Yates was running an ecology project in San Francisco with Brendan Richards.
** Howard and Juno Baker were running a church fête somewhere in Gloucestershire.
** John Benton was doing something secret out in Malaysia.
** Carla Langer was going to another wedding.
** Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart was in Peru.
** Maria Jackson had got exams.
** Alan Jackson was tied up at work.
* Christchurch Walk is a street in Chiswick. Peter Dalton lives at 120 Christchurch Walk.
* The Gerrard House is in Buckinghamshire.
== Notes ==
* An image of the Tenth Doctor appears on the cover. This is the first time the Doctor has appeared on the cover of a novel based on a spin-off series (and indeed is the first time he has been featured as a major character in a spin-off book).
* This is also the first time the Doctor has appeared in a novelisation since the revival of the parent series in 2005. This makes The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith the first novelisation of a televised Doctor Who story since of in 2004, although the last "regular-episode" novelisation was The Evil of the Daleks in 1993).
* It also marks the first appearance of the Tenth Doctor in a novel outside BBC Books line, as the Sarah Jane novelisations are published by Penguin Character Books.
* This is the ninth book in the SJA novelisation series, as indicated by the number "9" on the spine. The reason that it is the ninth story novelised, despite the fact that it was not the ninth story broadcast, is some stories have not yet been novelised.
* As of autumn 2010, this stands as the final SJA novelisation published as a physical book. Two further books (including one featuring the Eleventh Doctor) were announced for publication in November 2010, but were subsequently cancelled. They were later released as eBooks only.
* Nicholas Courtney never appeared as the Brigadier in The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith due to ill-health. His absence was explained by the character being back in Peru, with the novel having him there during a video call with Clyde.
=== Deviations from the televised story ===
* Sarah Jane briefly thinks of Harry Sullivan, who is either dead or M.I.A — she's not entirely sure which it is — believing he would have loved to be at her wedding, and remembering his habit of calling her "old thing".
* Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart has a video conversation with Clyde Langer, but isn't able to come to Sarah Jane's wedding due to being in Peru.
== Continuity ==
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