The Twisted Sword - (Poldark, 11) by Winston Graham (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The 11th novel in Graham's classic Poldark saga explores the complications of love lost and the class struggle of early 19th-century England with a light comic touch.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The eleventh novel in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, now a major TV series from Masterpiece PBS.<br></b><i><br>Cornwall 1815</i> <p/>Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons - and travel to Paris with his family, as an 'observer' of the French armed forces. <p/>Parisian life begins well with an exhilarating round of balls and parties. But the return of Napoleon brings separation, distrust and danger to the Poldarks . . . and always for Demelza there is the shadow of the secret she does not even share with Ross. <p/>In his Poldark series, Winston Graham explores the complications of love lost and the class struggle of early 19th-century England with a light comic touch. <i>The Twisted Sword </i>is followed by the twelfth book in the Poldark series, <i>Bella Poldark</i>.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A distinct pleasure and outstanding in the genre." --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> <p/>"From the incomparable Winston Graham. . . who has everything that anyone else has, and then a whole lot more." --<i>Guardian </i>(UK) <p/>"Ross is one of literature's great heroes . . . [with] elements of Darcy, Heathcliff, Rhett Butler and Robin Hood." --Debbie Horsfield</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>WINSTON GRAHAM is the author of more than forty novels which have been translated into seventeen languages. Six of his books have been made into films, the most notable being <i>Marnie</i>, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The first TV adaptation of the Poldark series was enormously successful and the new one is being shown widely around the world. Winston Graham was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 1983 was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). He died in 2003.
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