896 pages
English language
Published July 26, 2005 by Dell.
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient 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 is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
I'll never forget the day the girls in the office talked about this book, sighing "Oh Jamie ...." and all the guys had big question marks in their eyes. Repeat this scene everytime women talk about this book ;) This book made me even like Jamie Lannister (for those SoIaF fans out there)
From my perspective this was an extended sexual fantasy allowing an English woman from 1945 to be the life's love of a strapping red-haired 18th century Scot. The fact that it was my only book on a long quiet weekend helped me get into it, and the historical detail and solid plot kept me going. I'm still not sure, though - did I just read a romance novel?
Not the worst thing I've ever read and parts of it were actually entertaining. However the squicky rape scenes really brought down my enjoyment of the book as a whole.
This is awesome girl porn! Very entertaining, made me want to stay home with a flu so I could cuddle up to it....
