After publication in 1928, it was banned for obscenity before going on to become an international bestseller.

It tells the story of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family who is ostracised for falling in love with another woman, Mary Llewellyn.

Groundbreaking in its day, Radclyffe Hall’s story ultimately makes a very clear plea in regards to homosexuality - ‘Give us also the right to our existence’.