The Lost Girl

"Underappreciated 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." —Amazon.com