When Ross and Demelza first meet, he is in his twenties and she is thirteen years old. As the years pass, he and Demelza grow closer and even defy the rules of polite society by getting married. What a plot! One day he comes across a poor girl named Demelza, who is abused by her father on a daily basis, and decides to take her in as his new servant girl. His house has fallen into disrepair, his servants spend their days in a drunken haze… Not what he thought he’d come home to. By the time he returns, his father has died and his fiancée has moved on and married his cousin. The plot of his first Poldark novel has potential, but its execution is far from memorable.įor those of you who were not lured into watching the BBC adaptation by Aidan Turner’s shirtless mowing (which is so gloriously female-gazey that it has to be seen to be believed), let me quickly summarise the plot: Ross Poldark is a young man from Cornwall who has been away from home for a number of years to fight in the American Revolution. This is a problem – not just for me and my review, but also for the author, Winston Graham. I have a confession to make: it’s been three weeks since I finished Ross Poldark (life got the way of my review, my apologies), and even though I’d jotted down some notes at the time, I can already barely remember this book.
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