The explosive passion between the lovers and the searing candour with which it was described marked a watershed in twentieth century litertaure.

Connie's marriage to Clifford Chatterley is one scarred by mutual frustration and alienation. Crippled from wartime action, Clifford is confined to a wheelchair, while Connie's solitary, sterile existence is eked out within the narrow parameters of the Chatterley ancestral home, Wragby. She seizes her chance of happiness and freedom when she embarks on a passionate affair with the estate's gamekeeper, Mellors, discovering a world of sexual liberation and pleasure she'd thought lost to her. The explosive passion of Connie and Mellors' relationship - and the searing candour with which it is described - marked a watershed in twentieth-century fiction, ensuring for Lady Chatterley's Lover a wide and enduring readership and lasting notoriety.

The author

David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1881 in Eastwood, a small mining village in Nottinghamshire, in the English Midlands. Despite ill health as a child and a comparatively disadvantageous position in society, he became a teacher in 1908 and took up a post in a school in Croydon, south of London. His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911, and from then until his death, he wrote feverishly, producing poetry, novels, essays, plays, travel books and short stories, while travelling around the world, settling for periods in Italy, New Mexico and Mexico. He married Frieda Weekley in 1914 and died of tuberculosis in 1930.

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