Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Claire Randall has just finished working as a nurse during World War II and is vacationing in Scotland with her husband. He is doing genealogical research and she is gathering local plants; they have been apart from one another during the war and are enjoying a second honeymoon. But all of that changes when Claire wanders between the stones of a large Stonehenge-like set of ruins and is sent back 200 years in the past.
In 1743 Claire must contend with the violent English soldiers and the rowdy Scottish clansmen, all the while trying to make her way back to the stone formation and try to make it back to her own time. We get to see ancient Scotland through the eyes of a “modern” time-travelling woman and experience Claire’s struggles as she tries to understand what has happened to her. And what will she decide to do about her feelings for the handsome young warrior James Fraser?
Outlander is a thrilling historical romance/adventure story with a great eye for historical detail and enthralling characters.
Recommended by Aurora Partridge, Downtown Reno Library
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