Outlander (International Edition)
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Outlander (International Edition)
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Narrated by:
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Kristin Atherton
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By:
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Diana Gabaldon
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series.
One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read!
Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages.
Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord … 1743.
Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives.
With over 500 audiobooks to her credit, narrator Kristin Atherton has collected multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards for books by Pat Barker, Francesca Segal, Lisa Jewell, and Alison Goodman, among others. She has been cast in the role of Jamie Fraser's sister Jenny Murray in the second half of Outlander Season 7 on STARZ.
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Strong female character, believable male support characters, flawed and vulnerable.
Historical information that makes you reach for your history books to learn more.
Unfamiliar words that grab your attention and turn to the dictionary to understand.
The narrator Kristin Atherton made the story come alive. I am in awe of her ability through accent and tone to make the reader feel immersed in the main character Claire’s life.
Both when she is feeling happy and content, but also when she is racked with fear and heartbreak.
I felt like I was there in that time and place.
Dinner with Diana Gabaldon, oh yes she is top of my list of the four, I would like to sup with before I die.
Adventure, romance, steamy sex, love.
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So jealous of the listeners who hear this story for the first time
Outstanding
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Well done
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Honestly, I can’t give an unbiased view of the book itself, because I love every page, every sentence, every word. As far as I’m concerned, there’s no need for a review of the story — it speaks entirely for itself.
This review is for the narrator.
And I genuinely don’t even know where to start.
Listening to Kristin Atherton is not simply listening to someone read a book. It feels as though Claire, Jamie, Roger, Brianna, and every other character have stepped straight out of the page and into the room. Somehow, she manages to capture the voices, rhythms, accents, and emotional weight of characters we already know so intimately from the television series — and yet she never sounds like she is imitating them. She becomes them.
Her performance is astonishingly nuanced. The subtle shifts in the Scottish lilt, the tiny changes in tone, age, humour, grief, warmth, stubbornness, tenderness — all of it is there. You know exactly who is speaking before the dialogue even tells you. That is not just narration; that is storytelling at an exceptional level.
I have a few favourite narrators, and I don’t say this lightly, but Kristin brings something truly special to this world. She honours the characters, the writing, and the enormous emotional history behind them. She doesn’t just read the story — she lifts it, carries it, and breathes life into every scene.
Kristin is quite literally bringing this story off the page.
For a world I already loved so deeply, her narration has made me fall into it all over again.
The Narrator!!!
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