Written a year (2002) before Graham died (2003), this book brings the series to a fitting conclusion: the tragic death of Valentine, the boy Ross Poldark impregnated Elizabeth Chynoweth Poldark with on the night (May 2, 1793) he raped her. It’s been a couple of weeks now since I finished Bella Poldark, the 12th and last of the Poldark novels. Jeremy Poldark (Ioan Gufford) and Ben Carter (Hans Matheson) rowing into Nampara Cove (1996 Poldark, Stranger from the Sea) ” … in this life it is better to live by absolutes, not to live by subtle dealings that no one can understand … Harriet to Ross, Book 3, Ch 5, p 467)” Perhaps it is the least admirable of feelings … Ross to Demelza on her rejection of Valentine, Bk 1, ch 11, p 129
It is like a microbe that lives within any family, touches all human relations. Jealousy is a very strange thing is it not? … jealousy or in its lesser form possessiveness - inhabits us all.
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