Heather Lyons

Story of a group of children and their efforts to prevent the War Office from closing their beloved beach to make a rocket-launching site.

Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, two humble teachers during 1963, discover a genius student's grandfather, simply known as "the Doctor", and his police box time machine. Deciding that the pair knows too much about his otherworldly origins, they are whisked away on a journey through time and space.