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Adèle

Leila Slimani

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Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a...

Perfect Ten

Jacqueline Ward

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Caroline Atkinson is powerless and angry. She has lost more than most - her marriage, her...

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Translated to: Indonesia, Malay, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Nederlands, Português,...

Shaking My Briefcase: Diplomatic Stories

Alan Charlton

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Alan Charlton couldn't describe diplomacy to his small children beyond saying he went to the Embassy...

The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Women's Stories

Amy Licence

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For a King renowned for his love life, Henry VIII has traditionally been depicted as something of a...

Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Lady Chatterley's Lover in Books

Oct 10, 2017 (Updated Oct 11, 2017)

Lady Chatterley's Lover

D.H. Lawrence | 1983 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance

6.3

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Rather formulaic period novel

Another period tale of a woman with little power. She seems to run from one man to another in order for survival.

Connie Reid marries Clifford Chatterley, the scion of an aristocratic line. After a month's honeymoon, he is sent to war, and returns paralysed from the waist down, impotent. She becomes increasingly isolated after he husband becomes more and more frustrated with his disability. At which point she becomes acquainted with - wait for it - the groundskeeper/gardener. They have a tumultuous love affair as a result.

I think this was rather generic and typical of novels at the time such as Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Expect affairs and dramatic leading ladies.