‘When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life’.
-Richard Aldington

This novel is Lawrence`s semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers.

Lawrence`s novels are perhaps the most powerful exploration in the genre in English of family, class, sexuality and relationships in youth and early adulthood.