📖 Publication Day ~ Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone by Diana Gabaldon

 

*Happy Publication Day*

Century
23 November 2021

The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. . . .

Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.

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. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible.

Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s tea-kettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep.

Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s—among them disease, starvation, and an impending war—was indeed the safer choice for their family.

Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to terms with the discovery of his true father’s identity—and thus his own—and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet . . . on his son’s behalf, and his own.

Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser’s Ridge. And with the family finally together, Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever before.

📖 My thoughts..

This is not a book review as my pre-ordered copy of Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone is on its way! However, it is with great excitement that I look forward to continuing this epic series which started thirty years ago and which, with each successive story, has involved me in the complex world which this skilled author has created. Her ability to recreate history is without doubt and her millions of fans around the world will be just as eager as I am to get started on this ninth book in the Outlander series. It's been a long wait - Book #8 was published way back in 2014. I am sure it will be worth the wait..

These are whopping big books and not ones to rush , so I'll be back, in a while, with my review...as they say watch this space...

About the Author

Diana Gabaldon is the internationally bestselling author of the Outlander series of novels. She lives with her family in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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