Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence

When Lady Chatterley’s husband Clifford returns from the battlefields of France paralysed from the waist down, his emotional distance drives her into an explosive affair with their gamekeeper, the rough-talking Oliver Mellors – a major taboo in inter-war society. Today, the novel’s depictions of the sexual exploits of its heroine would barely raise an eyebrow, yet DH Lawrence’s tale of love and lust across class barriers was deemed so shocking on publication in 1960 that it was widely banned and even subjected to an obscenity trial.