One of the biggest issues with adapting books to screen is time. It means that characters don’t get the development that they deserve, and in some cases, it means they don’t get the full introduction that they deserve. Outlander Season 8 has fallen foul to that when it comes to Percy Beauchamp, but there is a bigger reason for that.
While you can read Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldonto get an idea of Percy’s current storyline, the details of his character go much deeper. Because the show hasn’t been able to adapt a specific set of novellas in the Outlander universe, it means a lot has been lost in the storytelling.
Even those who have only read the main Outlander books were thrown for a bit of a loop when Percy Beauchamp was introduced. He came into the story during An Echo in the Bone and stuck around, in search for Claudel — otherwise known to us as Fergus Fraser — and we got a brief backstory in that he is Lord John Grey’s stepbrother.
There is much more to them, as that story alludes. It’s clear that they had romantic feelings for each other, at least at some point, but the main novel doesn’t use the time to explain a lot of that. While Gabaldon says that she writes her books so that you can pick any of them up and not feel like you have to read the others to full understand the story, with Percy and John, you need to read the Lord John Grey novellas.
‘Outlander’ Fans Need To Read the Lord John Grey Novellas
Percy’s first introduction is in Lord John and The Private Matter, but it’s just briefly. It’s in Lord John and The Brotherhood of the Blade when we get to know him better, although he’s known as Percy Wainwright at the time. He certainly has a darker backstory than many other characters.
I don’t want to give spoilers from this point, but his relationship with Lord John Grey and the reasons he ends up in France are all explained within the novellas. It’s why so many people have asked that these books be turned into some sort of Outlander spinoff series.
Percy is certainly a man of opportunity and secrets. It’s what makes his search for Fergus so interesting, and it’s going to be exciting to see how it all plays out on the TV series.
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