Poldark Novels Part IX

Clowance is ambivalent about her husband's death. She feels some love for him, but she is shocked by his deceptions and lies, and tells Demelza that if she ever marries again, it will be for convenience and status. Demelza still grieves for Jeremy, and is glad that Ross stays home more nowadays, and she has her young son Harry who is still a baby. Valentine now married to Selina Pope is living nearby, and he is a little bored with his wife who is pregnant. Ross meets him one night, sneaking out of the house of John Treneglos, a local squire who has several daughters. He realises that Valentine is having an affair with Agneta, who has learning difficulties. He fears it will lead to problems, he is a little sorry for Valentine who has never had a happy home and he blames himself for raping Elizabeth, and causing the rift in her marriage. Demelza is a little jealous of his sympathy for Valentine but she believes it is because Harry is so young. By now, Dwight and Caroline have had 2 daughters who survived infancy, Sophie and Meliora and are happy. Drake having married Morwenna, has moved to Looe, to manage a boat building yard, and they have one daughter, Loveday. Isabella, the youngest Poldark daughter, has turned out to have a powerful voice and she meets a young man Christopher Havergal, who wants to marry her and to help her to a stage career. In the final Poldark novel, Bella Poldark we learn of her musical studies and life in Cornwall between 1818 and 1820. There is something of a crime wave in the country and more than 1 young woman is murdered. It looks like a serial killer....... M/F