Poldark Novels Part VII

The next Poldark novel after THE ANGRY TIDE is set several years after Elizabeth's death and Ross and Demelza's children are now almost grown up. A young man is washed ashore near Nampara, and he turns out to be a sailor. He becomes friendly with the Poldarks and falls in love with Clowance. He comes from a poor background, and was reared by a foster family, before he went to sea. George Warleggan has grieved for a long time about Elizabeth, but he is now beginning to think of remarriage. Ross still feels guilty over his forcing Elizabeth to have sex, which caused the problems in her marriage and led to her death. but he and Demelza have grown closer over the years, and she has come to accept that he had a lingering love for Elizabeth but that she is his wife and love. Their 2 elder children Jeremy and Clowance are in their teens and they have another daughter Isabella. Demelza has grown and developed and is able to fit in with county society. Isabella has a talent for music, which she wants to develop. Geoffrey, Elizabeth's son by Francis Poldark, has joined the army and is fighting in the Peninsula. Valentine his half brother is a rather sinsister young man who does not get on with his possible father George. George wants to marry Valentine off to a gentry family, but the boy is difficult and reluctant to obey him. George is resentful that he has tried to secure a genteel wife and connexion with the upper classes for his son, yet Valentine barely shows him any respect. George courts an aristocratic widow, Lady Harriet Carter, and she agreeds to marry him because she is not very well off. Jeremy, the eldest surviving child, is now a young man who is interested in engineering and in developing machinery for use in the mine, and he wants to experiment with using machinery to travel on the roads. He falls in love with Cuby Trevanion, the daughter of a grand family, who have over extended themselves building a large castle... Cuby is devoted to her family and has agreed to marry a rich man if they want her to do so, so although she is attracted to Jeremy she snubs him. Demelza becomes pregnant again and has another son, Harry. However, George has been making plans for Valentine to marry Cuby, and to bring genteel Cornish blood into the family, but his rakish son has been having an affair with Selina Pope, the wife of an elderly businessman. Mr Pope catches him in bed with Selina and he collapses and dies. Soon after the old man's death, Valentine secretly marries Selina who has a fortune. So he tells George that he can't marry Cuby.. he's married already and his new wife will be able to support him.