Demelza follows on with the lives of Captain Ross Demelza, house maid-turned wife Demelza and the rest of the Poldark family including Francis, Elizabeth and Verity. Demelza sees Ross and Demelza welcome their first child plus have to deal with yet more of Francis' jealousy and a lot of mining difficulties.

It took me a little while to get into the swing of the book. While the timeline tends to be fairly fast-paced, I found the reading itself to be slow. But after a while, I managed to fall back into step with Demelza and Ross and pick up their relationship which I adore. I thought there was some fantastic character growth for Demelza in particular in this book, she continues to prove everyone wrong by becoming a highlight in upper class society and being literally the belle of the ball. She's a character than makes me smile and I really enjoy both reading about her, and watching her in the BBC series of the show.