Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

Content Warning: The source material discusses sexual assault and violence against women, and it contains historically inaccurate depictions of Indigenous Americans.

The main protagonist of the Outlander novels is Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser. Claire is a doctor from the year 1968 who has traveled back in time for the second time to be with her husband, Jamie Fraser. This novel begins in 1779 and ends in 1781, but Claire met Jamie in 1743 after she accidentally traveled through time and found herself in the Scottish Highlands, where tension between the Scots and the British created a dangerous atmosphere for a woman who was suspected of being both a spy and a witch. Claire and Jamie’s relationship has gone through many ups and downs from the beginning, including estrangement, separations, loss, and violence. However, they continually find one another and continue to live a strange but adventurous life together.

In this novel, Claire begins as a contented mother and grandmother just reunited with her daughter and her family. However, as the novel progresses, the tension of war comes close to home, causing tension in Claire’s relationships and forcing her to make difficult choices. One of the relationships impacted is the one between Claire and Mrs.