SHELF LIFE

Sons and Lovers

by DH Lawrence

‘I read this when I was about fourteen. It was the first book I’d come across in which the author seemed to love his characters. They weren’t just figures in a story, doing things. They were like his children. The tenderness he felt for them was almost sacred. I read all his other books afterwards. had much the same feeling. I like , too. The bit where the woman from the village is dressing the disabled Sir Clifford one morning and looks out of the bedroom window to see Mellors standing in the morning mist, looking up at the big house and realises at that instant that this, this was Lady Chatterley’s