



“It was definitely more of a challenge to write, mostly because of the chronology, which was very complicated,” she says. I feel sorry for George RR Martin – his show caught up with him. Go Tell the Bees, in which Jamie and Claire have finally been reunited with their time-travelling daughter Brianna and her family in 1779 North Carolina, only for the American revolution to cast its shadow over their lives, also runs to more than 900 pages. She is in London after a cruise from Basel to Amsterdam accompanied by more than 100 of her fans, here to talk about Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, the eagerly anticipated ninth novel in the series.įans have been waiting for it since 2014, when Written in My Own Heart’s Blood left them hanging, but Gabaldon has been somewhat delayed by the television adaptation of her series, which kicked off that year and on which she is a consultant. The Outlander author, whose blockbuster historical fantasy series about Claire, a married woman from the 1940s who accidentally time travels back to 18th-century Scotland and falls for outlaw Jamie, has sold 50m copies around the world. More than 30 years later, it is clear Gabaldon had her priorities right.
