Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising of 1745, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. ‘Gabaldon is a gifted world-builder, and her attention to the unglamorous details of life in the past, like digging privies, plus authentic portraits of marriage and relationships lift her series’ Daily Telegraph ‘ Go Tell the Bees is packed with everything readers love about the Outlander series’ Guardian ‘Gabaldon’s vast and sweeping account of the war is so intricately plotted and peopled that one is amazed she could conceive and write it in only seven years’ Independent The book contains three Outlander family trees, which are somewhat helpful.*The author of the Sunday Times bestselling Outlander series returns with the newest novel in the epic tale.*
The extended Fraser clan also includes children born out of wedlock, stepchildren, adopted children (and adults), along with lovers and spouses acquired in the decades since Jamie and Claire first met. These include Brianna, her daughter fathered by Jamie but raised in the 20th century by Claire and her former husband, as well as Brianna’s husband, Roger, and their children, additional outliers from the future. A World War II British Army nurse, Claire now uses her skills as a healer to tend to the many residents of Fraser’s Ridge. Claire is an outlander (a stranger) from the mid-20th century who, after many years living in the 18th century, has mostly adapted to life among folks unfamiliar with penicillin, automobiles or Dr. Jamie Fraser, Highland Scot and paterfamilias of a large and complexly related clan, has settled there with his time-traveling wife, Claire. The novel opens in the summer of 1779, on Fraser’s Ridge in the North Carolina Colony.
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