READ: 26.09.17 - 01.10.17

BOOK: Lady Chatterley's Lover

AUTHOR: D. H. Lawrence

GENRE: Romance

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Sir Clifford Chatterley returns home from war severely injured and impotent, causing tension in his marriage to Lady Constance Chatterley. Clifford gives his young wife permission to seek a lover from the upper classes, but Constance becomes ill from the strain of caring for her husband. A visiting nurse recommends fresh air for her recovery, which leads her into the arms of gamekeeper Oliver Mellors.

REVIEW: This book took me far longer to read than expected just because school is really consuming my life at the minute. I really enjoyed this story though, and thought it was a really interesting look into the position of women at the time and one woman's exploration of her own sexuality. It was far more raunchy than I thought it would be, but once you get past that it's a really fascinating story full of some interesting characters.

I have to say that the relationship between Mellors and Connie did seem very forced and unrealistic, but that only really occurred in the last hundred pages or so.

FINAL VERDICT: A really fun book to read that raised some interesting questions for me.

RATING: 8/10