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title:                                  Outlander
tagline:                                The Land and Lore of Scotland
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date:                                   2016-11-28 19:16:49 +0100
category:                               books
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  cover:                                https://d4rri9bdfuube.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9780/4402/9780440212560.jpg
  format:                               paperback
  pages:                                850
  publisher:                            Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
  author:                               Diana Gabaldon
  ISBN10:                               0440212561
  ISBN13:                               9780440212560
  rank:                                 297
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Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century,
and a lover in another...

In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and
reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches
aboulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles.
Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and
raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon
inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch.
She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that
may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart.

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For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so
fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity
and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

_Absorbing and heartwarming .. lavishly evokes the land and lore of Scotland_

*Publishers Weekly*

_Stunning!_

*Los Angeles Daily News*

_It is a large canvas that Gabaldon paints, filled with strong passions and
derring-do. Strong willed and sensual, Claire is an engaging modern heroine
plopped down in a simpler, more primitive time .. Great fun .. marvelous
and fantastic adventures, romance, sex .. perfect escape reading!_

*San Francisco Chronicle*