Ross Poldark

It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns weary from the gruesome war of American Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins. The joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead, his estate is derelict and his fiancée, Elizabeth Chynoweth, having believed him dead, is engaged to his cousin. Poldark's keen sense of morality and social justice lead 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... About the Author Winston Graham was the author of more than forty novels, including The Walking Stick, Angell, Pearl and Little God, Stephanie and Tremor. His novels have been widely translated and his famous Poldark series has been developed into two television series shown in twenty-four countries. Six of Winston Graham's books have been filmed for the big screen, the most notable being Marnie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Winston Graham was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 1983 was awarded the OBE. He died in July 2003. Now an eight-part drama series on BBC One starring Aidan Turner (The Hobbit) and Eleanor Tomlinson (Death Comes to Pemberley) as Ross Poldark and Demelza in Debbie Horsfield's adaptation of the sweeping saga.