- Drums of Autumn
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Drums of Autumn Author(s) Diana Gabaldon Country United States Language English Series Outlander series (book 4) Genre(s) Historical novel Publisher Delacorte Press Publication date December 30, 1996 Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 896 pp (mass market paperback) ISBN 0-385-31140-0 OCLC Number 34473809 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 20 LC Classification PS3557.A22 D78 1997 Preceded by Voyager Followed by The Fiery Cross Drums of Autumn is the fourth book in the Outlander series, written by Diana Gabaldon. The stories center around a time-travelling 20th century doctor (Claire Fraser) and her 18th century Scottish husband (Jamie Fraser), and are located in Scotland, France, and America.
The heroine of the bestselling Outlander, Claire, returns in Drums of Autumn, reunited with her husband Jamie Fraser and facing a new life in the American colonies. As the preceding novel, Voyager, concluded with Jamie Fraser and his wife Claire shipwrecked on the Georgia coastline—and happy to be out of Scotland—Drums of Autumn picks up where Voyager left off. Brianna Ellen Randall and her suitor, historian Roger Wakefield, remain safely ensconced in the 20th century. Now orphaned by her mother's departure to the past, Brianna struggles to accept her loss and satisfy her curiosity about a father she has never met, only to discover a tragic piece of "history" that threatens her parents' happiness in the past. This discovery sends Brianna back through time on a mission to save her parents and sends Roger after her.
References
Works by Diana Gabaldon Outlander Outlander (1991) • Dragonfly in Amber (1992) • Voyager (1994) • Drums of Autumn (1997) • The Fiery Cross (2001) • A Breath of Snow and Ashes (2005) • An Echo in the Bone (2009) • The Exile - An Outlander Graphic Novel (2010)
Lord John Lord John and the Hellfire Club (1998) • Lord John and the Private Matter (2003) • Lord John and the Succubus (2003) • Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade (2007) • Lord John and the Haunted Soldier (2007) • The Custom of the Army (2010) • Lord John and the Plague of Zombies (2011) • The Scottish Prisoner (A Lord John Novel) (Forthcoming, to be published November 29, 2011)
Other The Outlandish Companion (1999) • Naked Came the Phoenix (2001)
Categories:- Outlander
- Time travel novels
- 1996 novels
- American historical novels
- Hispanic American novels
- Novels set in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Novels set in the American colonial era
- Historical novel stubs
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