Trapped in a marriage which has become sterile and joyless since her husband´s return from the trenches of the First World War, partially paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Connie seizes the chance of sexual fulfilment she had thought lost to her forever.
First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition. The famous ´Lady Chatterley trial´ heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery.