The Binding Force

This book has been withdrawn from publication. It will be revised and re-released at a later date.Joanna King .................................................................. Marilyn and Matthias, two people for whom love has been elusive, imagine this time it might be different. Matthias risks far more in their liaison than Marilyn is aware. Anna and Sebastian, in the pain of separation after a 21 year marriage, agonise over whether to try it again. Meanwhile elderly Friedrich roams the hills above Vienna mourning a woman whose journals claim that "...love is the new god, the new perfection, the mystery..."What is The Binding Force, which draws people together, keeps them together, or fails?Friedrich reveals to Marilyn, who is from New Zealand, the startling personal past of her British-born father Tom, who served in Austria as a young man during the post-war Occupation, and who died when she was twelve years old.