Book description
Cornwall 1813. A silver cup lies half-forgotten in a dank cave, amongst
a pile of stolen goods. Yet the tiny vessel and its inscription
Amor gignit amorem
haunts the lives of the still-feuding Poldark and Warleggan families,
as Ross, Demelza and the ambitious and powerful Sir George Warleggan
watch their children make the decisions that will shape their destinies.
In the closing years of the wars against Napoleon, for Jeremy and
Clowance, and for arrogant, cynical Valentine Warleggan, these are
troubled and momentous times... ‘From the incomparable Winston
Graham... who has everything that anyone else has, and then a whole
lot more.’
Guardian
Winston Graham is the author of more than forty novels, which include Cordelia
, Marnie
, The Walking Stick
and Stephanie
as well as the highly successful Poldark
series. His novels have been translated into seventeen languages and
six have been filmed. Six of Winston Graham's books have been filmed for
the big screen, the most notable being Marnie
directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Two television series were made of the Poldark
novels which were broadcast in twenty-two countries. Winston Graham was
a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 1983 was awarded the
OBE. He died in July 2003
