The Lost Girl (Bantam Classic)

Under-appreciated until now, The Lost  Girl is perhaps D.H. Lawrence's most  beautiful, thoroughly contemporary, love story. This  captivating novel charts the journey of a woman  caught between two worlds and two lives-one mired in  dreary, industrial England and a life of convention,  the other set in the vibrant Italian landscape  holding the promise of sensual liberation. Alvina  Houghton is fading into spinsterhood when she meets  Naples-born Cicio, a vaudeville dancer who draws  her into a dance of seduction, reawakening her  desire as she defies her stifling upper-class life.