Product Description

Cornwall 1815. Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons - and travel to Paris with his family, as an 'observer' of the French armed forces.

Parisian life begins well with an exhilarating round of balls and parties. But the return of Napoleon brings separation, distrust and danger to the Poldarks . . . and always for Demelza there is the shadow of the secret she does not even share with Ross.

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17809 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 656 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

I was shocked!
Another great story from Winston Graham as we catch up with the Poldark family in 1815. The book is the eleventh in the saga which has followed the lives of Ross and Demelza over the last 32 years. Their older children are now married and coping with their own trials and tribulations. Relations between George Warleggan and Ross are as bad as ever. As usual we have page-turning storylines contrasting with the minutiae of everyday life set mostly in Cornwall and bought vividly to life.

But there's an event half way through the book that comes as a total surprise. At first I couldn't believe what I was reading, then I was shocked to the core and had to put the book down for a while as I came to terms with what had happened.

Clever writing indeed when a story can make the reader react in that way. It's what I love about these novels, the characters are so real I feel I know them well, and I laugh, cry, despair and celebrate along with them.