Outlander

Outlander

The gripping historical romance from the best-selling adventure series (Outlander 1)

Summary

The iconic first novel in the bestselling Outlander series, as seen on Amazon Prime.

'Scotland's answer to Game of Thrones'
Herald
'So intricately plotted and peopled that one is amazed she could conceive and write it in only seven years' Independent
'Gabaldon is a gifted world-builder' Daily Telegraph
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What if your future lay in the past?

1946, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It's a second honeymoon, a chance to re-establish their loving marriage. But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes into 1743, where the first person she meets is a British army officer - her husband's six-times great-grandfather.

Unfortunately, Black Jack Randall is not the man his descendant is, and while trying to escape him, Claire falls into the hands of a gang of Scottish outlaws, and finds herself a Sassenach - an outlander - in danger from both Jacobites and Redcoats.

Marooned amid danger, passion and violence, 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 between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives.
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With more than 20,000 5-star ratings on Amazon and 25 million copies sold worldwide, OUTLANDER is among the most popular book series of all time. Begin your journey into the Highland past here...

***** 'Read on, GR friends, this series is epic and you won't regret it!!!'
***** 'my favourite book of all time <3'
***** 'This series changed my life. I cannot even begin to go into the details of how much I fell in love with the main characters'
***** 'If you like historical fiction, time travel, and/or romance, PICK THIS UP.'
***** 'Anyone who's known me longer than 5 minutes knows this is my favourite book.'

About the author

Diana Gabaldon

DIANA GABALDON is the author of the international bestselling Outlander novels and Lord John Grey series.

She says that the Outlander series started by accident: 'I decided to write a novel for practice in order to learn what it took to write a novel, and to decide whether I really wanted to do it for real. I did - and here we all are trying to decide what to call books that nobody can describe, but that fortunately most people seem to enjoy.'

And enjoy them they do - in their millions, all over the world. Published in 42 countries and 38 languages, in 2014 the Outlander novels were made into an acclaimed TV series starring Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser and Caitriona Balfe as Claire. The series has now been renewed for a fifth and sixth season.

Diana lives with her husband and dogs in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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