One such trail follows the story of Roger MacKenzie’s parents.In Outlander, we learn that Roger was orphaned during World War II, and then adopted by his great-uncle, the Reverend Reginald Wakefield, who tells Claire and Frank that Roger’s mother was killed in the Blitz, and that his father was a Spitfire pilot ‘shot down over the Channel’.In Drums of Autumn, Roger tells Brianna the moving story of his mother’s death in the collapse of a Tube station during the bombing of London.But in An Echo in the Bone, there is a poignant conversation in the moonlight between Claire and Roger, during which we encounter this little zinger:Her hands wrapped his, small and hard and smelling of medicine.‘I don’t know what happened to your father,’ she said. ‘But it wasn’t what they told you [. . .]‘Of course things happen,’ she said, as though able to read his thoughts. ‘Accounts get garbled, too, over time and distance. Whoever told your mother might have been mistaken; she might have said something that the reverend misconstrued.
