num_pages: 512
description: High-minded independent imaginative Teresa Hawkins knows only one commandment: Thou shalt love. Emotionally starved by her ramshackle family Teresa searches for fulfilment outside her stultifying life as a working girl in a large city. Obsessed with love and sex she pins her affection on the first possible object the egotistical Jonathan Crow a poverty-stricken tutor who coaches her in Latin. Teresa preserves this love in the face of his indifference contempt and ill-usage imprisoned by her belief that to love is to give for ever without stint and not to ask for the slightest thing. It is only through another man - her ebullient and warm-hearted employer James Quick - that Teresa comes to understand her power as a woman and emerges from obsession to a real consciousness of sexuality and love. Set in Sydney and London For Love Alone first published in 1945 is one of Christina Steads finest novels.[Source: http://www.faber.co.uk/work/for-love-...]
language: English
title: For Love Alone
publisher: Faber & Faber