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Written In My Own Heart's Blood

  • 2008 first published
  • 864 pages
  • 6 editions

Written In My Own Heart's Blood is a 2008 historical fantasy and time-travel fiction novel by Diana Gabaldon. Key subjects include time travel, scottish Americans, voyages dans le temps and américains d'origine écossaise.

42 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 6 editions.

At about 864 pages, most readers finish it in 15–16 hours.

About Written In My Own Heart's Blood

In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears...into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven best-selling novels, and CNN has called it "a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries]." Now the story continues in Written in My Own Heart's Blood. It is 1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife; his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is; and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie's wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny, are busy picking up the pieces. The Frasers can only be thankful that their daughter Brianna and her family are safe in 20th-century Scotland. Or not. In fact, Brianna is searching for her own son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family's secrets. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the past in search of the missing boy--never suspecting that the object of his quest has not left the present. Now, with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna herself.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Historical romance
  • Philadelphia, Pa.
  • United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783
  • Time travel romance
  • Historical fantasy
  • Fraser, claire
  • Fraser, jamie
  • Time travel
  • Scottish Americans
  • Voyages dans le temps
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Américains d'origine écossaise
  • FICTION / Fantasy / Historical
  • FICTION / Romance / Time Travel

Quick answers

Who wrote Written In My Own Heart's Blood?

Written In My Own Heart's Blood was written by Diana Gabaldon and first published in 2008.

What genre is Written In My Own Heart's Blood?

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

How long is Written In My Own Heart's Blood?

The median edition has 864 pages, about 15–16 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Written In My Own Heart's Blood?

Readers who like it often enjoy Ilium, Soulless and Hollow City.

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