Join the Ferbuary virtual literary salon! Lady Chatterley's Lover is a book that was both ahead of its time and of its time.

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Plot summary: Lady Chatterley’s Lover explores the intense affair between the sexually frustrated Connie—whose husband, Clifford, is paralysed from the waist down—and Oliver Mellors, the family gamekeeper. First published in 1928, the novel challenged the social and sexual taboos of its time and was immediately banned as obscene.

Post-Great War era. Cross-social class intimacy. Banned book.