aBoSA...SPOILER... Bree and Roger

[drgldy76]

Does anyone know what year it was at the end? It seemed Mandy must have been
2 years old to be biting and arguing with her brother. It's got to be the
70's, right? not the 80's

[Alida Spry]

Post by drgldy76
Does anyone know what year it was at the end? It seemed Mandy must have
been 2 years old to be biting and arguing with her brother. It's got to be
the 70's, right? not the 80's

I think that it's got to be about 1980 or 1981. Mandy was born in April of
1776 and they went through on Halloween of 1776, there is a difference in
time of 203 years approximately so then they would have arrived in our 1979.
If she aged about another year or so then that puts them at Lallybroch
around 1980 or 1981.

Hopefully I figured that out correctly. You made me think and I had to pull
out my copies to double check the dates. Now I want to read them all again!

Alida

[Kellimezzo]

It is written in "A Breath of Snow and Ashes" that it was the 70s.
Brianna is thinking about the birth certificates that Claire handwrote
for the children and it says that since it was the 70s and communes
existed, homebirths weren't that unusual. I just reread that part last
weekend.

Post by drgldy76
Does anyone know what year it was at the end? It seemed Mandy must have been
2 years old to be biting and arguing with her brother. It's got to be the
70's, right? not the 80's

[Alida Spry]

Post by Kellimezzo
It is written in "A Breath of Snow and Ashes" that it was the 70s.
for the children and it says that since it was the 70s and communes
existed, homebirths weren't that unusual. I just reread that part last
weekend.

I don't remember that. What page is it on? If Claire made birth
certificates for the children, they would have to reflect the difference in
the two time lines of about 203 years. So even though Mandy was born in
1776, in the future time line, she would have been born in 1979. If they
showed up with a six month old baby in 1979 and a birth certificate that
said 1976 then obviously people would question that.

So, as I mentioned in my previous post, Mandy was born in April of 1776 and
they left on Halloween 1776. And again, based on the other experiences with
time travel in the book, there is about a 203 year difference between the
two time lines. So that would mean that they arrived in 1979.

Most children begin walking around one year old but only say a few words
until about two. Of course, every child is different but let's just say for
the sake of argument that Mandy is two at the end of ABOSAA where they're at
Lallybroch. That would mean that it is maybe the end of 1980 or sometime in
1981.

Alida