Sun by D. H. Lawrence.

Divided into five parts, D. H. Lawrence's story of initiation into rites of the healing, vital process of connection with the universe begins with the doctor's command: "Take her away, into the sun." Juliet, a middle-class young matron, leaves behind her tepid-souled husband Maurice as she travels by ocean passage with her son, a nurse, and her mother to the south, to Sicily. There, in a landscape known to ancient Greek colonists of the Italian isle, she strips off her clothes—symbolic of her former prudish conventions—to be naked in the sun. In part 1, by the roots of a cypress tree, she feels the sun warm her into renewed physical consciousness; revitalized, she invites her young son, Johnny, to play in the sun.