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Ross Poldark, by Winston Graham
Coming home from war is hard. Coming home from war to learn that the woman you love is marrying your cousin, your father has just died, your servants are drunken slatterns, and that you have a lot of work ahead of you to turn around the estate’s fortunes is exponentially harder. It’s little wonder that Ross, of Winston Graham’s 1945 novel Ross Poldark, wrestles with anger for most of the novel. With a set up like that and with such a protagonist, I was expecting a much more brooding novel. I was surprised over and over again at how funny this book is...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.
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