In a Nottinghamshire colliery village, Gertrude Morel’s marriage to the hard-drinking miner Walter Morel sours, and she pours her hopes into her sons. Paul, the younger, grows up sensitive and artistic, torn between his mother’s possessive devotion, the spiritual farm girl Miriam Leivers and the married suffragette Clara Dawes.
Lawrence’s semi-autobiographical novel of 1913, a landmark in the fiction of working-class life and family love. Download the free EPUB.