Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)

'Mother- I really don't love her. I talk to her- but I want to come home to you.'

The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, fastidious Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially her sons, William and Paul- determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is inevitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating grasp by entering into relationships with other women.