I feel a little silly admitting this, but I've just made a connection. Poldark has been mentioned a lot lately, and I know it's an upcoming PBS series. But I just figured out that it's not about vampires or supernatural phenomena. And it's not post-apocalyptic or dystopian. {But you understand why I might draw that conclusion from the name, right? }
But here's the strange thing. It's based on a book... a series of books, actually. And almost everyone seems to know about them. Except me. Several of my goodreads friends have even read some (or all) of them. Even more surprising, Poldark has already been made into a miniseries. Twice. In the seventies... when I was paying attention to that kind of thing. {Remember Roots?} How did I miss it?
The twelve historical novels of The Poldark Saga were written by Winston Graham, the first four in the 1940s and 1950s. After a long pause, the series resumed in 1973 and book 12 was published in 2002.
Set in the 1780's, the main character, Ross Poldark, is a British Army officer. He returns to his home in Cornwall after the American Revolutionary War only to find that his fiancée Elizabeth Chynoweth, having believed him dead, is about to marry his cousin Francis Poldark... And it continues from there.
There's more information on the PBS website. The series begins June 21.
Have you read the books or watched the miniseries? Will you watch this new version? Should I?
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