His achievement is to let us see impulses and passions from the inside.'-Margaret Drabble. 'A happy balance of insight and sympathy. Callow re-creates better than any previous Lawrence biographer.'-Julian Moynihan.

'A surprising tale of metamorphosis which Mr. We were trying to portray the truth of what DH Lawrence wrote. And he shows how Lawrence was able to transmute the contradictions of his personality into the stuff of art. Lawrences first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down. Callow recreates the half-rural, half-industrial world of the English Midlands where Lawrence grew up and which haunted his imagination all his life he traces Lawrence's relationships with women, particularly his dominating mother, his first love Jessie Chambers, and earthy Frieda, his partner in a stormy marriage.

Philip Callow captures the extraordinary drama of Lawrence's life from 1885, the year of his birth, to 1919 when he quit England. Lawrence's growth to maturity was a painful and traumatic business, the impulses of the young lover constantly thwarted by the self-doubt of the mother's son.

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