The core of what makes me who I am hasn’t changed, but my experiences in life have taught me things I wouldn’t have been able to grasp as a young adult. 40-something me bears little resemblance to the twenty-something me I used to be. I didn’t really pay attention to that the first few times I read it, but now-being almost the same age as Claire is in the book-I’ve actually experienced the way a person evolves over decades. This is important, because it illustrates that Jamie and Claire aren’t the same people anymore, and why. While readers certainly aren’t privy to every little thing that happened during those decades, they are made aware of the important events that happened to Jamie and Claire.

Glimpses into Claire’s past are given during key moments of her narration, as well, usually when an event is taking place that calls the memory to mind for her. It is through their points-of-view that readers discover details of Jamie’s life without Claire. Jamie and Lord John’s narrations cover the 20 years of Claire’s absence.

Voyager has multiple narrators, adding Jamie and Lord John Grey as first-time narrators for certain portions of the story, as well as Roger, and (of course) Claire. Claire’s 20th century storyline, and the 18th century storylines. Like the previous book, the storyline covers two different timelines. (The book was released 27 years ago, and the television series is about to enter its 5th season… so most people probably know this already.) Certain that Malcolm is Jamie, Claire must choose between staying in the 20th century with her daughter, or returning to the 18th century to be reunited with the man she loves.Īaaaaand she chooses Jamie… with Brianna’s blessing.

Then they discover an article written by in 1765, put out by an Edinburgh printer named A. Knowing he meant to die on Culloden Moor, the last thing she expected to find out was that Jamie survived the battle… but he did. After Frank died, Claire returned to Scotland, told Brianna about Jamie, and -with the help of Roger Wakefield-went about the task of learning the fates of everyone she left behind. Claire spent those years in Boston with her first husband, Frank Randall, raising “their” daughter Brianna and going to medical school to become a surgeon. Twenty years have gone by since Jamie sent Claire back through the stones, so that she and their unborn child would be safe from the aftermath of Culloden.

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