Outlander Book PDF by Diana Gabaldon

The Outlander novel begins with the first chapter called A New Beginning and narrates from the perspective of 27-year-old woman Claire Beauchamp who is a former British Army nurse.

The book begins with Claire and her husband Frank Randall, a history professor who has returned to Inverness, Scotland for meeting with his wife after surviving the Second World War separation.

Being a historian, Frank usually studies lots of historical incidents and researches them, now he is researching his Scottish ancestor named Captain Jonathan Randall.

Moving forward, Claire faints as soon as she touches standing stones near the hill after curiously trying to know the strange noise constantly coming from the stone.

When she wakes up, she finds herself in the year 1743 as she has traveled through time. Claire encounters Captain Jack Randall who is Frank’s ancestor. He is very rude and accused Claire of certain reasons.

Before Jack Randall could do anything to Claire, he was knocked unconscious by a group of Scottish clansmen, knowns as Highlanders. They also kidnaped Claire and take her with them.

A character introduced in the Outlander pdf book named James “Jamie” Fraser, a comrade of the Clan is softened and kind toward Claire whereas Claire feels quite comfortable with him. While interrogation she lies and represents herself as an English widow and was on a way to visit her family in France.

Well, The chief of the clan Colum MacKenzie suspects Claire of being an English spy rather than believing her story and refer to her as Outlanders which means an outsider to the town.

On the other side, Claire identifies Jamie belongs to a different clan because of his different genes, and gradually, Claire and Jamie come closer when she comes to know about Randall who had raped his sister Jenny.

Further, Colum advised his brother Dougal to collect rent to raise money for the Jacobite movement.

As Claire is suspected,  Captain Randall tries to take control for clearing her identity and tells Dougal for bringing Claire for interrogation. When he couldn’t succeed in identifying whether she is a spy or not, he beats badly to Claire.

Dougal advised Claire to get married to Jamie to avoid future interrogations from anyone as this is the prominent way that makes her natural to fit in the Scottish clan.

Initially, Claire hesitates but later accepts the suggestion and married to Jamie in the church, Jamie reveals that his family name is Fraser. They both make love intensely and confessed their love for each other.

But things do not go smoothly and Claire is slightly being detached from Jamie due to Jamie’s aggression and also thinking about Frank, so she has a failed attempt while returning to Craigh na Dun and captured by Captain Randall.

While imprisoned, she meets with Geillis, a woman who is also from the future, and identifies this through the scar on her arm quite similar to Claire herself. Later Jamie comes to rescue Claire and he succeeds in it.

Finally, the time comes when Claire reveals the truth about her time travel journey to Jamie, Jamie takes her to Craigh na Dun so she can return to her original timeline but she chooses to stay with Jamie.

Now, we have a glimpse of Jamie’s home Lallybroch and his family including his sister Jenny who lives with her husband Lan. At Lallybroch, Jamie got captured and puts into prison due to the betrayal of one of his mates.

Whereas Claire is captured by Randall, and later he tries to rape her. Jamie puts his life at the risk and solicits front of Randall to leave Claire and offered himself to Randall who assaulted him physically.

With the help of Sir Marcus MacRannoch, Jamie’s mother, suitors, and family, Jamie is rescued from the prison and taken to Sir Marcus’s house where he gets treatment by Claire for rapid recovery but his memory is impacted badly by Randall’s physical assault.

Jamie fights with it and is able to recover from a traumatic state of mind, now Jamie and Claire make love for the first time after Jamie’s terrible state, and at the end of the novel, Claire reveals happiness that she is carrying a baby.