Q&A with Outlander's Diana Gabaldon
In the second season of the hit Starz drama, the Outlander lovers try to save Highlander clan culture by changing time itself–and in the process, provide an extraordinary history lesson on the Jacobite Rebellion and Scotland in the 1740s (for more of that history, read Dana Huntley’s Jacobite overview).
The show–and the book series on which it’s based–is a mix of action, romance and, of course, period drama. World War II nurse Claire, along with the audience, steps back into a dangerous, captivating past, an era that’s been beautifully reconstructed through meticulous research. “It’s just a taste for detail, I suppose,” says author Diana Gabaldon humbly. Here, she talks to British Heritage Travel about seeing her novels adapted, her new favorite scenes and how the Battle of Culloden is like the Death Star.
