Women in Love continues where The Rainbow left off, with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their relationships, Ursula`s with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector, and Gudrun`s with industrialist Gerald Crich, and later with a sculptor, Loerke. Quintessentially modernist, Women is Love is one of Lawrence`s most extraordinary, innovative and unsettling works.

In his introduction Amit Chaudhuri discusses Lawrence`s style and imagery. This introduction also includes a chronology of Lawrence`s life and work, further reading, notes and appendices containing the original foreword to Women in Love, a fragment of `The Sisters`, `Prologue` and `Wedding` chapters from an earlier draft, a map and discussion of the setting and people involved