Lady Chatterley's Lover

Dec 4, 2025 9:21 PM

Author:D H Lawrence

Now a major Netflix film starring Emma Corrin and Jack O'Connell, Lady Chatterley's Lover is one of the most pivotal - and controversial - novels of the twentieth century.

Clifford Chatterley returns from the First World War as an invalid. Constance nurses him and tries to be the dutiful wife. However, childless and listless she feels oppressed by their marriage and their isolated life. Partly encouraged by Clifford to seek a lover, she embarks on a passionate affair with the gamekeeper, Mellors. Through their liaison Lawrence explores the complications of sex, love and class.

Written in 1928 and subsequently banned, Lady Chatterley's Lover is one of the most subversive novels in English Literature.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BLAKE MORRISON

Reviews

No one ever wrote better about the power struggles of sex and love

—— Doris Lessing

A masterpiece

—— Guardian

Does for D H Lawrence what Jack the Ripper did for Gladstone bags and stovepipe hats

—— Neil Gaiman

He was a big influence on me - I loved the seriousness and intensity he brought to his studies of human relationships, and the boldness with which he pushed the boundaries of what could be said and thought and written about in the novel

—— Andrew Davies

Mixes vividly detailed history, enchanting speculation, and time-travel fantasy. A splendid debut of careful research and sparkling imagination, creating a love story and kingdom that never was... or was it?

—— William Dietrich, author of The Dakota Cipher

Absorbed by the twists and turns of the story, I felt like applauding every new idea, every conversation, every mystery and every revelation.

—— Michael Moorcock

Outstanding

—— Vanity Fair

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

—— Guardian

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