Parallel Lives

Professor Bernice Surprise Summerfield, or simply Benny, is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures. The New Adventures were licensed novels carrying on from where the Doctor Who television series had left off, featuring a number of writers that previously worked on the series, along with several new to the franchise. Summerfield was introduced in Cornell's novel Love and War in 1992, the first companion character original to the series.