Book Review: Outlander

Claire Randall is in Scotland, celebrating her second honeymoon with her husband after the "official" end of World War 2.  Both Claire and her husband were involved in the war effort and have seen each other only occasionally over the seven years that they've been married, and this is their first opportunity in a long time to spend some serious time getting to know one another all over again.

Claire is an amateur botanist, and she has taken advantage of her time in Scotland to find out more about the native flora and fauna, and spend time with the people of the area, learning more about the healing properties of these herbs. She finds some particularly fascinating herbs up around a stone circle.  After one trip up with her husband, Claire goes back a second time to gather more herbs.  Through some strange twist of the cosmos, Claire is flung 200 years into the past - back into Scotland in the years immediately preceding the Jacobite Rebellion.

As Claire struggles to come to grips with her new reality, she finds love - a love so strong and so deep that it crosses the boundaries of time.  Surrounded by intrigue and uncertainty at every turn, Claire struggles to find her way back to her husband and her own time.  But if she ever finds the portal back to her own time, will this love keep her in this strange world?

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