FOUR SWANS

The sixth Poldark novel set in Cornwall, 1795-97. Although Ross Poldark, now something of a war hero, seems secure in his hard-won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation with a young naval officer interested in his beautiful wife, Demelza. All four women, the Four Swans, whose lives touch Ross's life, face crisis in these years. For his wife Demelza, his old love Elizabeth, his new friend's wife Caroline, and for the unhappy Morwenna Chynoweth, these are times of stress and conflict. Read the original now that we have the faces on the TV screen and enjoy in the novels the reverberation of the furnaces, the talk of the Warleggans, the toil and the passion in these well-written historical novels. 581pp in paperback reprint of the 1976 original.