The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than 60 years, setting them against the emergence of modern England. 

          The Brangwens have been established for generations as a Yeoman family on the borders of Nottinghamshire. When Tom marries a Polish widow he discovers that love must come to terms with other forces that make up a personality. Frankness with which Lawrence treated sexuality caused the book to be seized by the police and banned shortly after its publication in 1915.