The Four Swans is the sixth novel in Winston Graham's sweeping series of Cornwall, Poldark. Although Ross Poldark

• •now something of a war hero
• •seems secure in his hard-won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wife Demelza. All four women
• •the four swans
• •whose lives touch Ross's, face a crisis in these years. For his wife Demelza, his old love Elizabeth, his friend's new wife Caroline and for the unhappy Morwenna Chynoweth these are times of stress and conflict.