A hundred years after the publication of DH Lawrence's first great novel, Sons and Lovers, we look at its place in literature today. We also consider its legacy for contemporary romantic literature: could the Derbyshire hunks of Jenny Colgan's award-winning romantic comedy, Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams, be indebted to Lawrence's working-class boys?
Colgan joins us to discuss the novel, which has just won the Romantic Novelists' Association award for romantic novel of the year. We're also joined by Graeme Simsion, an Australian writer whose first novel, The Rose Project, is set to be the sleeper hit of the summer.
• This podcast was re-edited to correct a mistake concerning the publication date of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Reading list:
Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence (uncut version Penguin/1913 text Oxford University Press)
Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams by Jenny Colgan (Sphere)
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (Michael Joseph)
