Outlander 01: Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon, ISBN 9780099911708

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Prequel to 'Dragonfly In Amber'.

Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century - and a lover in another . . .

On holiday with her husband just after the war, she walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands and into a violent skirmish taking place in 1743.

A wartime nurse, Claire can deal with the bloody wounds that face her; it is harder to deal with the knowledge that she is in Jacobite Scotland and the carnage of Culloden is looming. Marooned amid the passion and violence, the superstition, the shifting allegiances and the fervent loyalties, Claire is in terrible danger from Jacobites and Redcoates - and from the shock of her own desire for a courageous renegade.

Romantic and thrilling, written with humour, colour and passion, 'Cross Stitch', the first in a series, is unique.

RRP: $19.95

About the Author: Diana Gabaldon

Diana Jean Gabaldon Watkins (b. January 11, 1952 in Arizona) is an American author of Mexican-American and English ancestry. Diana Gabaldon is her maiden name, and the one she uses professionally. Gabaldon is the author of the best-selling Outlander Series. Her books are difficult to classify by genre, since they contain elements of romantic fiction, historical fiction, and science fiction (in the form of time travel). Her books have so far been sold in 23 countries, and translated into 19 languages.

Gabaldon's first fiction efforts were posted on the CompuServe writers forum. She was an active member of an online community, and posted parts of her unfinished novel, Outlander, to strengthen her points in an argument with another poster. One of the people who read her post was a science fiction writer. He was impressed, and introduced her to his agent. This favorable feedback persuaded her to finish and publish the first book in the Outlander series, which later expanded to six books (two more are planned). The stories center around a time-travelling 20th-century nurse (Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser) and her 18th-century Scottish husband (James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser), and are located in Scotland, France, the West Indies and America. The seventh book of the series, An Echo in the Bone, is planned to be released in Fall 2009. The Lord John Series is a spin-off from the Outlander books, as it centers on a secondary character from the original series.

Note: Diana did not take her husband's name after they married, "My husband was mildly put out that I refused to take his name when we got married. I told him, though, that I'd been spelling "Gabaldon" for people for twenty-five years, and I was attached to it."

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Reviews of Outlander 01: Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon

Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
Reviewed by Sallyann, 11/12/2008

If you love historical fiction - put this one on your list. Follow Clare's journey through the stones to her new Scottish life - centuries before. This series of books have everything in them, love, loss, betrayal, history, scenes that turn your stomach with gritty details, and scenes that bring tears to your eyes that you will read over and over again. This is a book that you will want on your bookshelf, it's a keeper. Carefully researched and nice and chunky in weight, because you won't want it to end.

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