I am half agony, half hope.
Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. … I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. … You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. …
A word, a look, will be enough to decide…
What people are saying about ‘For You Alone’
My initial opinion remains. However, I have observed much improvement in Wentworth. Seeing him by daylight, and examining him closely, I am very much struck by his personal claims, and feel that his superiority of appearance might be not unfairly balance against Anne’s superiority of rank. For You Alone is an adequate telling of things as they happened.
— Sir Walter Elliot
My first object is to see Anne happy. I love her better than my own opinions. Yes, it was awkward at first. Each of us has been harsh in our judgements of the other. But he makes her happy and she will be cared for with more affection than at home. Please do not tell anyone I said that.
— Lady Anne Russell
I am not in the least impressed with Susan Kaye’s middling story of cliches and worn tropes. The ‘man in uniform’ story is tattered nearly to rags at this point. And Wentworth himself is heroic only in the minds of readers not courageous enough to explore romance with a clever chap such as myself. One star because I can go no lower.
— Wm Elliot
Anne may be restored to her natural seniority, and the mistress of a very pretty landaulette; but I have a future to look forward to! My sister has no Uppercross Hall before her, no landed estate, no headship of a family. And if we are able to keep Captain Wentworth from being made a baronet, I would not change situations with Anne. About the book? Oh I did not read it.
— Mary Musgrove
Susan Kaye, writer 