Harrison Williams's Reviews > Love Among the Haystacks

One of Lawrence's shorter works, this novel involves two brothers, close in age, being raised on a farm who are engaged in sibling rivalry that almost seriously injures one of the brothers. Each is at an age where marriage is on their minds, but neither yet has a match. That changes over the course of a few days when one young woman comes to the aid of the brother she believes has been injured, while another young woman arrives on the scene as part of a wandering married couple who are without work and hungry. This leads the brothers to have to consider their futures simultaneously. The difficulty of this book, in my view, lies in Lawrence's frequent use of colloquial speech that is often hard to deduce -- for instance, "now are ter commin?" and "it is an' a'!"