Outlander Book Club: Voyager Chapter 3 breakdown

Just the Outlander chapter

We pick up off the back of the previous chapter. We’re in 1968, with Claire, Brianna, and Roger looking through the historical records for Jamie. They need to figure out what could have happened to him after he left Culloden. Where could he be?

At one point in the chapter, there is the mention of the Dun Bonnet. Roger brings up the legend of the Dun Bonnet, and how he would wear a brown cap to hide himself. Could it be that he was hiding his red hair, hair that would tell the British soldiers exactly who he was?

This Dun Bonnet lived around Lallybroch. There’s certainly a chance that the two people were one and the same.

However, it’s not all about finding Jamie. Claire also thinks back to 1948, when she returned through the stones. We learn what happened at the hospital upon her return.

Frank wouldn’t initially listen to the story. It would have been a shock to him, after all, and it wouldn’t have helped that the first thing Claire said to Frank was that she was pregnant. What a greeting after being missing for two/three years (depending on the version of the books you read).

While Frank doesn’t really want to believe the story, he does accept Claire back. There’s no way he’s going to leave a pregnant woman alone. He makes it clear that he’s not a cad. This is when Claire suspects that Frank can’t have children of his own and that Frank knows that. This is Frank’s only chance to have a family, but she also admits to herself that he isn’t a cad.

Brianna’s birth does start to bring the two together. It was a high-risk pregnancy, so there was no intimacy during it. Then the first three months or so pass by with sleep deprivation as many new parents find themselves. It’s afterward that Frank and Claire finally reconnect on an intimate level.

However, all is not well. Claire is struggling with everything around her. Finally, when Frank is upset that Claire isn’t ready to receive visitors at home, Claire breaks. She leaves the house and drives around late at night. She has no idea where she’s going until she passes a church. She remembers the peace that came with the perpetual adoration back in the first book, and she goes to the church to find that peace again.

Frank follows her and finds her. He escorts her home, which is when the two are intimate once more.

It’s clear there’s more to come with the flashbacks, but there’s also more to come from the search for Jamie.