While boats are in the background of this story, it is a very coastal type of tale and worth a read if you have avoided it for all these years...
Ross Poldark by Winston Graham
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Re-reading this book after 40 years and having seen two versions on television, I wasn't expecting to be deeply engaged, but what I had forgotten- and what you don't get in a filmed interpretation- is the wonderful quality of the author's writing and the sensitivity of his observation.
It is still a ripping tale about the lives of folk in various classes in Cornwall during the late 18th Century but it is also a timeless tale about moments and interactions which resound with our own experiences of living.
The last four paragraphs of this novel are surely as perfect a conclusion as it is possible to write.
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Ross Poldark by Winston GrahamMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Re-reading this book after 40 years and having seen two versions on television, I wasn't expecting to be deeply engaged, but what I had forgotten- and what you don't get in a filmed interpretation- is the wonderful quality of the author's writing and the sensitivity of his observation.
It is still a ripping tale about the lives of folk in various classes in Cornwall during the late 18th Century but it is also a timeless tale about moments and interactions which resound with our own experiences of living.
The last four paragraphs of this novel are surely as perfect a conclusion as it is possible to write.
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