Product Description

Cornwall 1810. The Poldark family awaits the return of Ross from his mission to Wellington's army in Portugal. But their ordered existence ends with Jeremy Poldark's dramatic rescue of The Stranger from the Sea.

Stephen Carrington's arrival in the Poldark household changes all their lives. For Clowance and Jeremy in particular, the children of Ross and Demelza, Stephen's advent is the key to a new world - one of both love and danger.

'From the incomparable Winston Graham...who has everything that anyone else has, then a whole lot more' Guardian

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72326 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

About the Author

Winston Graham is the author of more than forty novels, which include Cordelia, Marnie, The Walking Stick and Stephanie as well as the highly successful Poldark series. His novels have been translated into seventeen languages and six have been filmed. Six of Winston Graham's books have been filmed for the big screen, the most notable being Marnie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Two television series were made of the Poldark novels which were broadcast in twenty-two countries. Winston Graham was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 1983 was awarded the OBE. He died in July 2003

Customer Reviews

MORE WITH THE POLDARK FAMILY
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel. I had had some recollections of the PBS Poldark Series when it was on TV back in the '70s. But beyond that, I did not know anything else about Ross Poldark and his family. That is, until I read this novel, the first of the series for me.

In this novel, Winston Graham provides rich character sketches of Clowance and Jeremy, two of the Poldark children. Clowance is a free-spirited, sensitive, yet sober-minded kind of young lady. You see her becoming acquainted with a young man who was fished out of the sea, and are witness to her growing attraction to him. He (Stephen Carrington) is an adventurer, a dreamer, a striver, a charmer, and a gambler. Yet, he has a good heart. A big heart. I don’t think it at all strange or odd that a young woman should be attracted to a man who is a bit rough round the edges as Stephen is. The reader may consider Stephen Carrington as a force of nature in terms of his personality and spirit.

Jeremy’s story is especially touching. He and his father have a somewhat uneasy and distant relationship, which by turns, begins to become closer. And there is also Jeremy’s growing love for Cuby Trevanion.

“The Stranger from the Sea” is a wonderful story. In addition to Ross and Demelza, you begin to see in this novel how the lives of their children are shaping themselves. I liked that. And the author’s descriptions of Cornwall are so evocative. You can almost feel the salt of the ocean on your skin and clothes as it pounds against the beach, or feel the touch of a rising breeze sweeping across the hills, signaling the approach of an autumn storm.

I can hardly wait to read the rest of the series!

Poldark revisited
As an avid fan of the Poldark TV series, I wanted to find out what happened after the end of series two. What happened in the lives of the Warleggans and the Poldarks. This novel concentrated mainly on Jeremy and Clowance Poldark, a little on George Warleggan, with updates on Valentine Warleggan, Sam Carne, Geoffrey Charles Poldark and Ross and Demelza. Whilst I thoroughly enjoyed it I would have liked to know more about Drake and Morwenna Carne and their child, and Ursula Warleggan. Probably worth reading the next book to find out how Jeremy progresses with his interest in steam power.