Diana Gabaldon's fans will be delighted to find Jamie and Claire as spirited and endearing as ever in this fourth installment of this magnificent saga. Romance, history, and time travel blend once again as the couple builds a new life together in the wilderness of pre-Revolutionary America.

Twice Claire has used an ancient stone circle to travel back to the 18th century. The first time she found love with a Scottish warrior but had to return to the 1940s to save their unborn child. The second time, 20 years later, she reunited with her lost love but had to leave behind the daughter that he would never see. Now Brianna, from her 1960s vantage point, has found a disturbing obituary and will risk everything in an attempt to change history.

Davina Porter's narrative talent adds a special vibrance and resonance to Gabaldon's complex, colorful characters. If you've experienced Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, or Voyager, you already know the length of the book is deceptive. None of them is nearly long enough.

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Listening Length	44 hours and 50 minutes
Author	Diana Gabaldon
Narrator	Davina Porter
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Audible.com.au Release Date	12 October 2020
Publisher	Recorded Books, Inc.
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08JD35F99
Best Sellers Rank	580 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 5 in Time Travel Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 6 in Historical Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals) 7 in Time Travel Romance (Books)

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Billie

Brilliant read

Reviewed in Australia on 27 May 2019

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I watched the first 3 seasons on Netflix, I couldn’t wait for season 4 so decided to see if I could buy season 4 in book form. Definitely not disappointed. I was taught the craft of writing and can only say the author is a master in the craft. I felt like I time travelled throughout the book. I will be looking out for season 6.

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ozziemade

Enthralled Reading

Reviewed in Australia on 24 August 2019

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Brilliant is the only word for this author and her story, the ease with which the story is told and written makes the understanding of the many traditions involved with Scots. Having watched seasons 1-3 on Netflix I’m glad I purchased books 4-5. Reading gives far more to ones imagination than watching someone else
’s interpretation on screen. A wonderful story of romance love and war and tradition.

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She's an awesome writer and very easy to become seriously addicted

Reviewed in Australia on 10 July 2017

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If you have never read any Gabaldon books, put your seat belt on and go on holiday. Once you get into this series you wont want to put the books down. You will want life to be placed on hold. She's an awesome writer and very easy to become seriously addicted. I've read the series through 3 times and have been hanging for the next book. (she often takes a couple of years.... so I'm impatiently waiting...)

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Carol Anne Harvey

Jamie keeps me reading, I confess

Reviewed in Australia on 18 January 2015

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I've enjoyed, and continue to enjoy, the Outlander series, however I find I need a break between each book. The first time I tried (20+ years ago) I gave up, but knew I would one day try again, I'm not sorry I did and I got much further this time (due in part to the Starz TV series being launched). I do find the repetition of detail in the past books annoying, even though I understand the need with such a long series. I am not a fan of Jamie's daughter, Brianna, who irritates me for her self-centered and often stupid actions. That said, I will continue as I like many of the other characters.

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tracker

Cut out the soft core sex and introspections....boring

Reviewed in Australia on 16 December 2015

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The minutiae of 18th. century life in Scotland and America may be fascinating to some but it doesn't add much (or detract much) from the story...just a glutinous mass to waded through in case of some missing component...what I didn't like were the highly detailed sex scenes ( so detailed and endless) to the point of boredom....please most of us have an imagination...the unnnecssary detail verged on soft core porn,The endless repetitive soliloquies and introspections led me to a catatonic state... o.k. read but astrung out potboiler

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Gail B

Diana Gabaldon - a Fantastic Author

Reviewed in Australia on 9 December 2019

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Portrayed characters, as in previous books, are real to life. The author spends a lot of time in research for background and it makes the settings and time period so interesting.

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Penelope Mcfarlane

fun read

Reviewed in Australia on 29 January 2015

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Claire and Jamie continue their adventures with a little dash of the supernatural thrown in. When their daughter dares to walk through the stones to seek out her father, the adventure has just begun. The end of this novel has me curious as to what will follow. Guess I'll have to read the next book and fine out!

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S Cameron

Never Fails to Satisfy

Reviewed in Australia on 19 April 2016

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Every book in this series is masterfully told. The writing is rich and evocative, the history is fascinating and the characters are well drawn and believable. Would I recommend this book as one that can be read as a 'stand alone'? Yes, probably but there really aren't 'spoilers'. If you happen to start with this book, you'll want to read backwards. You won't be disappointed.

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Marshall Lord

Much better than the TV adaptation (Outlander Season 4)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 January 2019

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I have been reading this in parallel with watching the TV adaptation (this book corresponds to Outlander Season 4 which at the time of writing is halfway through airing with a new episode released on Amazon Prime every Monday.)

The books and TV stories tell the story of Claire Randall, who had been a combat nurse with the British Army during World War II, and, while on a second honeymoon with the husband from whom she had largely been parted during the war, is transported back 203 years in time from 1946 to 1743 by a stone circle. This story and the events over the following year were told in the first novel, originally published in the UK as "Cross Stich" but subsequently as "Outlander" which is also the title of the series of novels and of the TV series.

The books published or anticipated to date are:

1) Cross Stitch/Outlander
2) Dragonfly in Amber
3) Voyager
4) Drums of Autumn
5) The Fiery Cross
6) A Breath of Snow and Ashes
7) An Echo in the Bone
8) Written in My Own Heart's Blood
9) Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (forthcoming)

Historical events which are covered include the sequence leading up to and aftermath from the 1745 uprising and the battle of Culloden, the settling of North America, and the American War of Independence.

So far each season of the TV series has told more or less the same story as the equivalent book of the series.

Throughout the first four books and TV series (I'm not going to say any more to avoid a spoiler) the readers' or viewers' perspective shifts between the 18th and 20th centuries.

The description of the world of the 18th century, with its glories and horrors, is at times exquisite and at times horrifying but very well done.

The TV version corresponding to this book, Season 4, is actually quite good but in my humble opinion the book much better for two reasons.

For one thing, there is a great deal of entertaining writing in the book which does not make its' way into the TV version. And secondly, the clash between 18th and 20th century worldviews is handled much better in the books, by which I had better explain that I mean that the characters in the books are far more likely to compromise enough to keep themselves alive in the 18th century while the characters in the TV series are more likely to behave in ways which will win the approval of politically correct 21st century viewers but would in practice have been only too likely to get themselves and their loved ones killed.

The heroine would have been born about 1920 which would make her a contemporary of my parents' elder siblings, so she would have been a child during the great depression, and she had survived World War 2 as a nurse in a British army field hospital just behind the front lines.

As such she would have seen more death, pain and suffering than most people alive today can begin to imagine and she would also have to be a deeply pragmatic and tough survivor type : she would also probably be that much closer to understanding the attitudes of people in earlier centuries than people living today would.

I can think of many ways in which 20th century Brits had attitudes closer to those of the 21st century than the 18th, but objectively, and without meaning this as a criticism of the people living in any of those three centuries, I can also very easily think of several issues on which the attitude of my parents' generation were closer to those of the 18th century than they are to the attitudes of many members of my children's generation.

To explain in detail any of the instances in the book and TV series which inspire this opinion would be a spoiler, but although the conflicts between modern and 18th century attitudes are very much present in the books as they are in the TV series, the characters in the former show much more awareness of how dangerous it could be to get yourself accused of being a witch, or of getting too far ahead of even the most enlightened attitudes of the time on issues like slavery, the place of women, or gay rights.

Indeed in some cases the story is ahead of the 20th century, never mind the 18th. A couple of important characters in the story are gay or bisexual. The TV series barely notices that there is anything unusual about this, while the books do at least record that the gay 18th century characters are living, quote, "in a time when that particular predilection could get one hanged."

Neither the books or the TV series are suitable for the sqeamish or those who like everything to be light and cheerful. Both are set in an era where terrible things happen to good people and indeed good people are sometimes forced to do or go along with cruel things.

Nevertheless if you are interested in history or time travel I can strongly recommend "Drums of Autumn" and the rest of the Outlabder series of books, and indeed the TV series too.

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Faye

Domestic bliss and edge of your seat adventures

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 April 2017

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The 4th book in the Outlander Saga sees Claire and her beloved Jamie settling at Fraser's Ridge with a handful of loved ones. 202 years in the future, Brianna and Roger grow closer, so close it almost tears them apart completely when Brianna discovers a small detail of her parent's fate.
This has been my favourite book in the series so far. I'd definitely recommend people new to the series to read at least this far.

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Ms. Judith C. Brosnan

Great story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 December 2020

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This is the 4th book in the series. The ONLY thing I have to complain about is that the books are so HEAVY!!!! I have arthritis in my hands especially my thumbs & wrists & it’s just so uncomfortable some times to hold the books. It takes me ages to get them into a good position. But I digress. I started off binge watching the series, got to season 2 & thought I’d better start reading the books. Read the first 3 books before I got back into the dearies again. Now I’ve nearly finished this book & am nearly at the end of season 5!!! Season 6 will hopefully, please God , start filming after Christmas having been held up by COVID. I’m dreading having to wait. It seems to me though that in season 5 they strayed a bit too far from the books. Murtagh came back , had an affair with Jocasta & then died at Alamance. None of which is in the book. Oh well. Still riveting.

V E C Nicholas

Another exciting installment to the Outlander Series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2019

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Drums of Autumn continues the story of Claire and Jamie and their enviable all consuming romance and now builds on it by intertwining the story of their child Brianna. Ending with a great gathering of the Clans in America - but a gathering that holds true to the now forbidden (bloody English) Highland traditions, Diana Gabaldon once again manages a flawless cliffhanger than means I'm about to go and buy the next book just so I can find out what happens next.

Basically - if you start on Outlander be prepared to read all of them!

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Andysmum

A compulsive read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 March 2018

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I love these books and although my favourite so far is the first outlander book which I thought complete in itself. The subsequent and this one included is a very satisfactory read. We are now in America and given the meticulous research that Diana Gabaldon has done about the colonies fascinating. I am only one quarter of the way through but I am desperate to find out more about Claire,Jamie and now we have Brianna and Roger and there story set in1969. I would not recommend these books though if you read in bed as you will never get to sleep as they are real page turners.

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