Most will associate scandal and controversy with D.H. Lawrence, the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover, but there is, in fact, a great deal more to this astute, fascinating and sensitive writer than ever appears upon first inspection. This incredible story of a Nottinghamshire miner's son, who broke free from the working class shackles of his birth, and climbed the social ladder to fame and literary success, is told in this revealing program, before Lawrence's confrontational writing and colorful personal life put him at odds with the established order of society, as the First Great War threw Britain into turmoil, and our author into exile.