Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel Women in Love is both a lucid account of English society before the First World War and a brilliant evocation of the inexorable power of human desire.
Women in Love continues where The Rainbow left off with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen now a teacher at Beldover a mining town in the Midlands and her sister Gudrun who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their relationships Ursula's with Rupert Birkin a school inspector and Gudrun's with industrialist Gerald Crich and later with a sculptor Loerke. Quintessentially modernist Women in Love is one of Lawrence's most extraordinary innovative and unsettling works.