The #Poldark countdown starts here
Poldark comes back to our screens on September 4th and so when Pan Macmillan got in touch about all things Poldark, we thought a booktrail was in order to mark the occasion. Books three and four have now been rebranded with the lovely Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson on the cover of Jeremy Poldark and George Warleggan himself on book four – Jack Farthing.
So what about these novels and why should you be excited?
Ross Poldark – Book One
The first in the series and where we meet Ross, home from a grim war in America to his beloeved Cornwall. Only he finds that the girl he left behind, the one he was to marry, believed him dead after so long away and so is now set to marry another. To make matters worse, it’s Ross’s cousin. To make matter even worse, everything else he left behind has gone to rack and ruin – his home and the mine practially destroyed and his father dead.
But his sympathy for the destitute miners and farmers of the district leads him to rescue a half-starved urchin girl from a fairground brawl and take her home – an act which alters the whole course of his life…
Demelza – Book two
The lovely and charming Demelza is the star of book two. For starting life as an impoverished street urchin, Delmeza Carne has done quite well for herself. She is now married to Ross Poldark and yet struggles to live in his world with ‘his people’. Ross continues to fight for the rights of the miners – those he sees as his people. But some still find it hard to accept her in his life, least of all his former sweetheart Elizabeth.
Turbulent years test their marriage and their love. And an enemy appears on the scene who will cause a great deal of trouble for all of them.
For the new series on BBC 1 – September4th:
Jeremy Poldark – Book three
Ross at the Bodmin Assizes this time so the Bodmin Moor and the rugged landscape of Cornwall seems to be his prison and past , containing his sprit rather than allowing him to flourish and support the local community as he always has done. Jeremy is the son of Ross and Demelza and it’s a very different and ever changing Cornwall into which he is born.
Warleggan – Book four
Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only his family’s financial security but also his turbulent marriage to Demelza. This book is very tumultuous and it’s a breathtaking journey to Cornwall in more ways than one.
So who’s excited?????
