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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone[1] is the ninth novel in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. It was published on November 23, 2021.

Plot[]

The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. . . .

Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.

It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible.

Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s tea-kettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep.

Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s—among them disease, starvation, and an impending war—was indeed the safer choice for their family.

Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to terms with the discovery of his true father’s identity—and thus his own—and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet . . . on his son’s behalf, and his own.

Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser’s Ridge. And with the family finally together, Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever before.[2]

Trivia[]

  • Gabaldon has stated online that the ninth book already feels very different from the others in the series: "It's like I dropped three (so far) rocks into a deep, deep pool and I'm reading the ripples."[3]
  • In reference to the title Gabaldon has explained that it comes from a very old Celtic custom (known in other parts of Europe, too) that made it to the Appalachians of talking to bees. You always tell the bees when someone is born, dies, comes or goes—because if you don’t keep them informed, they’ll fly away.[4]
  • Gabaldon announced on March 27, 2021, that she had finished writing the book.[5]

Book Covers[]

Excerpts[]

From Diana Gabaldon's official webpage and Facebook

References[]

  1. Diana reveals title of Book Nine via Facebook. Accessed 4 July 2016.
  2. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone – Penguin Random House. Accessed 15 April 2021.
  3. Gabaldon, Diana. "Rank your favorite Outlander books." MSG: 83979.52. Diana Gabaldon. Books and Writers Community. Compuserve. Published 20 June 2015. Accessed 1 December 2017. 
  4. Diana Gabaldon Offical Webpage: Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone. Accessed 11 August 2016
  5. Diana Gabaldon Twitter - March 27, 2021.

See also[]

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