The Miller's Dance By Winston Graham

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0120200817

Winston Graham's series of novels set in Cornwall follows the lives of the Poldark family and their friends, neighbours, rivals and enemies. Life in Cornwall is governed by the sea and by the fortunes of the tin and copper mines that provide work for the local community.

The Miller's Dance finds Ross Poldark now 52 years old and still happily married to Demelza, who is ten years younger than him. Their eldest son Jeremy is approaching 21 and their eldest daughter Clowance is 17, both of them navigating the changeable weather of first love. The Poldark family is completed by young Isabella-Rose although neither Ross nor Demelza will ever forget the grief of losing their first born, Julia, before her third birthday.

A series of courtships begins their complicated dance, some fuelled by lust and others by love, money or ambition. All this takes place against a backdrop of England's continuing military campaign against Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal. The damage that war has done to the nation's commerce and those who rely on it gives rise to political tensions which are played out in complex schemes of power and influence amongst the governing classes in London. A world which seems so far away from the pressing concerns of Cornish life and which nevertheless beckons Ross to attend to his duties in parliament as an MP.

The story told here (Book 9 in the famous series of novels) rejoins the characters in 1812 - about ten years after the point where BBC television's hugely popular series concluded. This is a chance to return to Cornwall and the passions of the Poldarks and at the same time to reflect on what marriage and courtship are really about and whether love can ever hope to conquer all.

Author : Winston Graham
Read by Richard Goulding
Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed
Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4

Book 9 in the Poldark series. Cornwall 1812, and marriage in all its guises is in the air.

Richard Goulding reads the ninth book in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series.

0220200818

Winston Graham's series of novels set in Cornwall follow the lives of the Poldark family and their friends, neighbours, rivals and enemies. Life in Cornwall is governed by the sea and by the fortunes of the tin and copper mines that provide work for the local community.

The Miller's Dance finds Ross Poldark now 52 yrs old and still happily married to Demelza, who is ten years younger than him. Their eldest son Jeremy is approaching 21 and their eldest daughter Clowance is 17, both of them navigating the changeable weather of first love. The Poldark family is completed by young Isabella-Rose although neither Ross nor Demelza will ever forget the grief of losing their first born, Julia, before her third birthday.

A series of courtships begin their complicated dance, some fuelled by lust and others by love, money or ambition. All this takes place against a backdrop of England's continuing military campaign against Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal. The damage that war has done to the nation's commerce and those who rely on it gives rise to political tensions which are played out in complex schemes of power and influence amongst the governing classes in London. A world which seems so far away from the pressing concerns of Cornish life and which nevertheless beckons Ross to attend to his duties in parliament as an MP.

The story told here (Book 9 in the famous series of novels) rejoins the characters in 1812 - about ten years after the point where BBC television's hugely popular series concluded. This is a chance to return to Cornwall and the passions of the Poldarks and at the same time to reflect on what marriage and courtship are really about and whether love can ever hope to conquer all.

Author : Winston Graham
Read by Richard Goulding
Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed
Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4

George Warleggan, man of business, seeks aristocratic connections.

Richard Goulding reads the ninth book in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series.

0320200819

Winston Graham's series of novels set in Cornwall follow the lives of the Poldark family and their friends, neighbours, rivals and enemies. Life in Cornwall is governed by the sea and by the fortunes of the tin and copper mines that provide work for the local community.

The Miller's Dance finds Ross Poldark now 52 yrs old and still happily married to Demelza, who is ten years younger than him. Their eldest son Jeremy is approaching 21 and their eldest daughter Clowance is 17, both of them navigating the changeable weather of first love. The Poldark family is completed by young Isabella-Rose although neither Ross nor Demelza will ever forget the grief of losing their first born, Julia, before her third birthday.

A series of courtships begin their complicated dance, some fuelled by lust and others by love, money or ambition. All this takes place against a backdrop of England's continuing military campaign against Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal. The damage that war has done to the nation's commerce and those who rely on it gives rise to political tensions which are played out in complex schemes of power and influence amongst the governing classes in London. A world which seems so far away from the pressing concerns of Cornish life and which nevertheless beckons Ross to attend to his duties in parliament as an MP.

The story told here (Book 9 in the famous series of novels) rejoins the characters in 1812 - about ten years after the point where BBC television's hugely popular series concluded. This is a chance to return to Cornwall and the passions of the Poldarks and at the same time to reflect on what marriage and courtship are really about and whether love can ever hope to conquer all.

Author : Winston Graham
Read by Richard Goulding
Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed
Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4

Clowance and Jeremy are invited by their cousin to the theatre in Truro.

Richard Goulding reads the ninth book in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series.

0420200820

Winston Graham's series of novels set in Cornwall follow the lives of the Poldark family and their friends, neighbours, rivals and enemies. Life in Cornwall is governed by the sea and by the fortunes of the tin and copper mines that provide work for the local community.

The Miller's Dance finds Ross Poldark now 52 yrs old and still happily married to Demelza, who is ten years younger than him. Their eldest son Jeremy is approaching 21 and their eldest daughter Clowance is 17, both of them navigating the changeable weather of first love. The Poldark family is completed by young Isabella-Rose although neither Ross nor Demelza will ever forget the grief of losing their first born, Julia, before her third birthday.

A series of courtships begin their complicated dance, some fuelled by lust and others by love, money or ambition. All this takes place against a backdrop of England's continuing military campaign against Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal. The damage that war has done to the nation's commerce and those who rely on it gives rise to political tensions which are played out in complex schemes of power and influence amongst the governing classes in London. A world which seems so far away from the pressing concerns of Cornish life and which nevertheless beckons Ross to attend to his duties in parliament as an MP.

The story told here (Book 9 in the famous series of novels) rejoins the characters in 1812 - about ten years after the point where BBC television's hugely popular series concluded. This is a chance to return to Cornwall and the passions of the Poldarks and at the same time to reflect on what marriage and courtship are really about and whether love can ever hope to conquer all.

Author : Winston Graham
Read by Richard Goulding
Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed
Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4

Violet Kellow is extremely unwell, Stephen pays a visit.

Richard Goulding reads the ninth book in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series.

0520200821

Winston Graham's series of novels set in Cornwall follow the lives of the Poldark family and their friends, neighbours, rivals and enemies. Life in Cornwall is governed by the sea and by the fortunes of the tin and copper mines that provide work for the local community.

The Miller's Dance finds Ross Poldark now 52 yrs old and still happily married to Demelza, who is ten years younger than him. Their eldest son Jeremy is approaching 21 and their eldest daughter Clowance is 17, both of them navigating the changeable weather of first love. The Poldark family is completed by young Isabella-Rose although neither Ross nor Demelza will ever forget the grief of losing their first born, Julia, before her third birthday.

A series of courtships begin their complicated dance, some fuelled by lust and others by love, money or ambition. All this takes place against a backdrop of England's continuing military campaign against Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal. The damage that war has done to the nation's commerce and those who rely on it gives rise to political tensions which are played out in complex schemes of power and influence amongst the governing classes in London. A world which seems so far away from the pressing concerns of Cornish life and which nevertheless beckons Ross to attend to his duties in parliament as an MP.

The story told here (Book 9 in the famous series of novels) rejoins the characters in 1812 - about ten years after the point where BBC television's hugely popular series concluded. This is a chance to return to Cornwall and the passions of the Poldarks and at the same time to reflect on what marriage and courtship are really about and whether love can ever hope to conquer all.

Author : Winston Graham
Read by Richard Goulding
Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed
Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4

George Warleggan makes an advantageous alliance.

Richard Goulding reads the ninth book in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series.

0620200824

Winston Graham's series of novels set in Cornwall follow the lives of the Poldark family and their friends, neighbours, rivals and enemies. Life in Cornwall is governed by the sea and by the fortunes of the tin and copper mines that provide work for the local community.

The Miller's Dance finds Ross Poldark now 52 yrs old and still happily married to Demelza, who is ten years younger than him. Their eldest son Jeremy is approaching 21 and their eldest daughter Clowance is 17, both of them navigating the changeable weather of first love. The Poldark family is completed by young Isabella-Rose although neither Ross nor Demelza will ever forget the grief of losing their first born, Julia, before her third birthday.

A series of courtships begin their complicated dance, some fuelled by lust and others by love, money or ambition. All this takes place against a backdrop of England's continuing military campaign against Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal. The damage that war has done to the nation's commerce and those who rely on it gives rise to political tensions which are played out in complex schemes of power and influence amongst the governing classes in London. A world which seems so far away from the pressing concerns of Cornish life and which nevertheless beckons Ross to attend to his duties in parliament as an MP.

The story told here (Book 9 in the famous series of novels) rejoins the characters in 1812 - about ten years after the point where BBC television's hugely popular series concluded. This is a chance to return to Cornwall and the passions of the Poldarks and at the same time to reflect on what marriage and courtship are really about and whether love can ever hope to conquer all.

Author : Winston Graham
Read by Richard Goulding
Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed
Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4

Ross is called to London to support his parliamentary allies.

Richard Goulding reads the ninth book in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series.

0720200825

Winston Graham's series of novels set in Cornwall follow the lives of the Poldark family and their friends, neighbours, rivals and enemies. Life in Cornwall is governed by the sea and by the fortunes of the tin and copper mines that provide work for the local community.

The Miller's Dance finds Ross Poldark now 52 yrs old and still happily married to Demelza, who is ten years younger than him. Their eldest son Jeremy is approaching 21 and their eldest daughter Clowance is 17, both of them navigating the changeable weather of first love. The Poldark family is completed by young Isabella-Rose although neither Ross nor Demelza will ever forget the grief of losing their first born, Julia, before her third birthday.

A series of courtships begin their complicated dance, some fuelled by lust and others by love, money or ambition. All this takes place against a backdrop of England's continuing military campaign against Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal. The damage that war has done to the nation's commerce and those who rely on it gives rise to political tensions which are played out in complex schemes of power and influence amongst the governing classes in London. A world which seems so far away from the pressing concerns of Cornish life and which nevertheless beckons Ross to attend to his duties in parliament as an MP.

The story told here (Book 9 in the famous series of novels) rejoins the characters in 1812 - about ten years after the point where BBC television's hugely popular series concluded. This is a chance to return to Cornwall and the passions of the Poldarks and at the same time to reflect on what marriage and courtship are really about and whether love can ever hope to conquer all.

Author : Winston Graham
Read by Richard Goulding
Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed
Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4

Ross returns from London in time for the Truro races.

Richard Goulding reads the ninth book in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series.

0820200826

Winston Graham's series of novels set in Cornwall follow the lives of the Poldark family and their friends, neighbours, rivals and enemies. Life in Cornwall is governed by the sea and by the fortunes of the tin and copper mines that provide work for the local community.

The Miller's Dance finds Ross Poldark now 52 yrs old and still happily married to Demelza, who is ten years younger than him. Their eldest son Jeremy is approaching 21 and their eldest daughter Clowance is 17, both of them navigating the changeable weather of first love. The Poldark family is completed by young Isabella-Rose although neither Ross nor Demelza will ever forget the grief of losing their first born, Julia, before her third birthday.

A series of courtships begin their complicated dance, some fuelled by lust and others by love, money or ambition. All this takes place against a backdrop of England's continuing military campaign against Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal. The damage that war has done to the nation's commerce and those who rely on it gives rise to political tensions which are played out in complex schemes of power and influence amongst the governing classes in London. A world which seems so far away from the pressing concerns of Cornish life and which nevertheless beckons Ross to attend to his duties in parliament as an MP.

The story told here (Book 9 in the famous series of novels) rejoins the characters in 1812 - about ten years after the point where BBC television's hugely popular series concluded. This is a chance to return to Cornwall and the passions of the Poldarks and at the same time to reflect on what marriage and courtship are really about and whether love can ever hope to conquer all.

Author : Winston Graham
Read by Richard Goulding
Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed
Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4

Ross and Demelza look forward to a new arrival.

Richard Goulding reads the ninth book in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series.

0920200827

Winston Graham's series of novels set in Cornwall follow the lives of the Poldark family and their friends, neighbours, rivals and enemies. Life in Cornwall is governed by the sea and by the fortunes of the tin and copper mines that provide work for the local community.

The Miller's Dance finds Ross Poldark now 52 yrs old and still happily married to Demelza, who is ten years younger than him. Their eldest son Jeremy is approaching 21 and their eldest daughter Clowance is 17, both of them navigating the changeable weather of first love. The Poldark family is completed by young Isabella-Rose although neither Ross nor Demelza will ever forget the grief of losing their first born, Julia, before her third birthday.

A series of courtships begin their complicated dance, some fuelled by lust and others by love, money or ambition. All this takes place against a backdrop of England's continuing military campaign against Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal. The damage that war has done to the nation's commerce and those who rely on it gives rise to political tensions which are played out in complex schemes of power and influence amongst the governing classes in London. A world which seems so far away from the pressing concerns of Cornish life and which nevertheless beckons Ross to attend to his duties in parliament as an MP.

The story told here (Book 9 in the famous series of novels) rejoins the characters in 1812 - about ten years after the point where BBC television's hugely popular series concluded. This is a chance to return to Cornwall and the passions of the Poldarks and at the same time to reflect on what marriage and courtship are really about and whether love can ever hope to conquer all.

Author : Winston Graham
Read by Richard Goulding
Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed
Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4

Clowance goes to stay with her cousin Verity.

Richard Goulding reads the ninth book in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series.

1020200828

Winston Graham's series of novels set in Cornwall follow the lives of the Poldark family and their friends, neighbours, rivals and enemies. Life in Cornwall is governed by the sea and by the fortunes of the tin and copper mines that provide work for the local community.

The Miller's Dance finds Ross Poldark now 52 yrs old and still happily married to Demelza, who is ten years younger than him. Their eldest son Jeremy is approaching 21 and their eldest daughter Clowance is 17, both of them navigating the changeable weather of first love. The Poldark family is completed by young Isabella-Rose although neither Ross nor Demelza will ever forget the grief of losing their first born, Julia, before her third birthday.

A series of courtships begin their complicated dance, some fuelled by lust and others by love, money or ambition. All this takes place against a backdrop of England's continuing military campaign against Napoleon's army in Spain and Portugal. The damage that war has done to the nation's commerce and those who rely on it gives rise to political tensions which are played out in complex schemes of power and influence amongst the governing classes in London. A world which seems so far away from the pressing concerns of Cornish life and which nevertheless beckons Ross to attend to his duties in parliament as an MP.

The story told here (Book 9 in the famous series of novels) rejoins the characters in 1812 - about ten years after the point where BBC television's hugely popular series concluded. This is a chance to return to Cornwall and the passions of the Poldarks and at the same time to reflect on what marriage and courtship are really about and whether love can ever hope to conquer all.

Author : Winston Graham
Read by Richard Goulding
Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed
Produced by Jill Waters
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4

Valentine Warleggan goes up to Cambridge.

Richard Goulding reads the ninth book in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series.