I’m afraid that I was a bit disappointed in this book. I found it rather boring. At first, the philosophies on intimacy interested and engaged me but Lawrence certainly has a way of waffling on. I think it could have been a much shorter book.

I didn’t really find anything engaging about Mellors either. There didn’t seem to be much that was attractive in his character, so Constance’s clinginess to him seemed a little strange in that respect, even a bit sad.

I do feel that what Lawrence said about the industrial age and the half-dead people living in it still has some relevance today, however.