Trapped in a marriage which has become sterile and joyless since her husband's return from the trenches of the First World War, partially paralyzed 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 bestseller 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 signaled the defeat of Establishment prudery.