thrilling, time traveling story

I loved this narrator's voice with different voice and accents. The story was wonderful. the time traveling segment was nice. And I loved Claire, she is brave and honest. Her character development is good.

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timeless love

a timeless love story. full of adventures, romance, pain, longing, attachment and time travel. A great listen...

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💝 “Does it ever stop, Claire? The wanting.” 💞

🫶 My greatest favourite! 😍 Quintessential romance. 💘 So intimate and charming. 💕

I am in raptures over it. Diana Gabaldon is a fanciful writer oozing of unmistakable talent. Davina Porter fascinated me with her narration on Audible; and I am astonished at the enthusiasm which she has excited. Oh! how I drank Jamie’s words! 💗 How his eloquence seemed to steal me from myself! 💖 I scarcely dared to breathe, fearing to lose a syllable. 💓

Claire Beauchamp was touring Scotland with her husband of eight years, Frank Randall. It was uncanny how suddenly she got transported 200 years back in the past. Her husband's cruel ancestor Captain Jonathan Randall chased her, but she was saved by the Highlanders.

One of the clansmen had some ugly wounds, and she was wonderfully alarmed about them! As she was a war nurse, she took all proper care of him. He was Jamie, a very agreeable, open-hearted young man. He had a splendid face with blue, fiery eyes. During the horse ride to Castle Leoch, he wrapped his massive, powerful arm around her to protect her.

At the castle, everyone was surprised with Claire's outlandish attire. The people had such a sense of humour, and such a racy mode of expression!

Jamie called her Sassenach (an outlander). What a thrill it was to call her by that name! Claire was glad when the warm respect and strong personal liking ripened into a friendship.

After some days, a marriage of convenience was proposed between Claire and Jamie to save her from the hands of the notorious Randall. Marriage presented the only possibility of deliverance, and deliverance was beginning to seem imperative. Claire was dumbstruck. She had no other resort. She secured this inestimable blessing for life—a worthy and excellent new husband, who would love her tenderly, but not too fondly so as to blind him to her faults.

Jamie was certainly very handsome; and there was an openness in his manner that was highly prepossessing. Such a gentleman as he was! So gallant! So well-bred! Claire enjoyed Jamie's down-to-earth manly attentions. There was an undeniable attraction about him that affected her very curiously. At first, she thought that she was infatuated with him. Yet, gradually she realized that it was for himself that she loved Jamie; his soul, his heart, his substance. He was not merely her standard of excellence, but also of endurance.

Since the first time Jamie had laid eyes upon Claire, she had wrenched the very heart out of him. He loved the profusion of her curly tresses. Her personal loveliness was only one of the many charms that made him tremble into passion. He was a very splendid lover, no doubt. She was good to him. Marriage was good to him. Jamie's heart was warmly cleaved to Claire. 💘

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