Review of "The Virgin and The Gipsy" by D H Lawrence

Odd period piece of a book, about a "family" - rector father, three daughters and his mother and sister, from which the daughter's mother has absconded with a lover. The youngest daughter is the central character, and it's about her inner life and the way she experiences social constrictions and conventions. Part of her inner life includes her infatuation with the eponymous gypsy, a young dark brooding type with almost no character of his own - tellingly, it's only in the final lines of the book that the young woman realises that he has a name.