The Four Swans is the masterful sixth novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner Cornwall 1795-1797 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 of a young naval officer for his wife Demelza All four women
- the four swans
- whose lives touch Ross's face a crisis in these years For his wife Demelza his old love Elizabeth his friend's new wife Caroline & for the unhappy Morwenna Chynoweth these are times of stress & conflict The Four Swans is followed by the seventh book in the Poldark series The Angry Tide