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Drums of Autumn

  • 1997 first published
  • 928 pages
  • ★ 4.2 (17 ratings)
  • 32 editions

Diana Gabaldon's Drums of Autumn (1997) is a historical fantasy and time-travel fiction novel. The story is set in South Carolina and United States, in the Colonial Period, ca. 1600–1775. It deals with scottish Americans, family, scots and time travel.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.2 out of 5 from 17 ratings, and 98 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 32 editions across 3 languages.

It runs to roughly 928 pages — 17–18 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Drums of Autumn

The magnificent saga continues....It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past--or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend--a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in frontier America. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century. Their daughter, Brianna....Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the stone circle and a terrifying leap into the unknown. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she is risking her own future to try to change history...and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past...or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong....From the Paperback edition.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Subjects

  • Scottish Americans
  • Family
  • Scots
  • Time travel
  • Families
  • Fraser, jamie
  • Time travel romance
  • South carolina
  • Scotland
  • Historical
  • Fraser, claire
  • Historical fantasy

Quick answers

Who wrote Drums of Autumn?

Drums of Autumn was written by Diana Gabaldon and first published in 1997.

What genre is Drums of Autumn?

It is usually shelved as Historical Fantasy, Time Travel and Historical Fiction.

How long is Drums of Autumn?

The median edition has 928 pages, about 17–18 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Drums of Autumn?

Readers who like it often enjoy Salute to Adventurers, Servant of the Bones and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

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