Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D.H. Lawrence. The narrative concerns Lady Chatterley, a young, middle-class married woman whose husband has been paralysed from the waist down after a grievous war injury. On top of the obvious physical problems this caused, he also emotionally neglected his wife, which caused a deep rift between the two. Eventually, this leads to Lady Chatterley's having an affair with her lower-class gamekeeper, which brings to the foreground the major motifs of the play