Mary J Greene

Rainbow Rainbow II Mary J Greene

Rainbow Rainbow II is a sequel to her earlier novel Rainbow Rainbow (2017), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Hurd sisters, Thora and Ursula. Thora Hurd, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions. The emotional relationships thus established are given further depth and tension by an unadmitted homoerotic attraction between Gerald and Rupert. The novel ranges over the whole of British society at the time of the First World War and eventually ends high up in the snows of the Swiss Alps.