Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon | 850 pages | 1991

The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

(Synopsis taken from Goodreads)

I decided to reread this after many years and many more books in the series. It has a very special place in my heart, and I enjoyed going back to the beginning of the series and seeing how the writing style has changed (like many others, I actually prefer these earlier books when the writing was more straightforward). This classic took a while to get through, but it did not disappoint.