 Rose Tyler, a young shop assistant in a London department store, lives a humdrum and profoundly average life - until the night the shop dummies where she works wake up and try to kill her. Her life is saved by a strange man who only calls himself The Doctor, and intrigued by him, she finds herself thrown headlong into a hectic battle to stop an alien presence from invading Earth and annihilating the human race. She comes to learn that her new friend is even stranger than she thought - in fact, the Doctor s an alien adventurer called a  Time Lord , seemingly the last of his race, who travels through time and space in his TARDIS battling evil where he finds it. And if she travels with him, she ll find herself witnessing the heat-death of the Earth five billion years in the future, meeting Charles Dickens in the past, and encountering lifeforms and invaders stranger than she d ever thought possible. Only one thing is certain - it ll be the ride of a lifetime...