Demelza Carne the impoverished miners daughter Ross Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble is now his wife. But in the events of these turbulent years test their marriage & their love. Demelzas efforts to adapt to the ways of the gentry
- & her husband
- bring her confusion & heartache despite the joy in the birth of their first child. Ross begins a bitter struggle for the rights of the mining communities
- & sows the seed of an enduring enmity with powerful George Warleggan. From the incomparable Winston Graham...who has everything that anyone else has then a whole lot more
- Guardian"."