Lady Chatterley's Lover

This novel is set in England after the First World War. Constance Chatterley lives in a quiet country house with her husband, Clifford, a landowner who has been left paralysed and emotionally distant by the war. Lonely and restless, she becomes drawn to Mellors, the gamekeeper on the estate. The book explores the divide between mind and body, class barriers, and the effects of industrial life on human warmth. Lawrence wrote with a frankness about sex and feeling that was shocking at the time, and the book was suppressed in Britain for decades. It is now read as a serious and tender, if sometimes polemical, work about intimacy.