Title: Outlander
First published: 1991
Description: Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages.

One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read!

Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743.

Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn betw
Subjects: Man-woman relationships, fiction, Historical fiction, Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 in fiction, History, Scotland in fiction, Fiction, Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746, Culloden, Battle of Scotland, 1746, Time travel in fiction, Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746 in fiction, Man-woman relationships in fiction, Love stories, Time travel, Jacobite Rebellion (1745-1746) fast (OCoLC)fst00981043, War stories, Historical, Culloden, Battle of (Scotland : 1746) fast (OCoLC)fst00884970, Fantastic fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Space and time, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, romance, time travel, Fraser, claire (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, Fiction, historical, Fraser, jamie (fictitious character), fiction, Jacobite rebellion, 1745-1746, fiction, Scotland, fiction, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2014-01-19, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Scotland
People: Claire Randall, Jamie Frazer, Frank Randall
Time periods: 18th century, 20th century