Lawrence's uncompromisingly candid novel deals in poetic and sexuallyexplicit language with the passionate relationship between Lady ConstanceChatterly and her husband's forthright and powerfully masculinegamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Trapped in a marriage which has become sterileand joyless since her husband's return from the trenches of the First WorldWar, partially paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Connie seizes thechance of sexual fulfilment she had thought lost to her forever.