Captivation Waltz

About the Book

How much unwanted truth can we stand in our lives? How many secrets do we dance around? Where is the balance between family and freedom? And just how little distance is there, really, between being enchanted and enslaved, between comfort and captivity? Set in end-of-the-20th-Century Vienna, Captivation Waltz brings you up against the hard choices faced by three generations of decent people, swirled inside a strange new, post-World War rendition of the Belle Époque. Here is life, seen through the lens of a culture different from the one you know, an old culture, one with different assumptions, norms and rewards, one that nonetheless invites you to take a fresh look at your own culture, your own suppositions, your own day-to-day dilemmas. Here are both illusion and integrity, along with the benefits and the high costs of each. And here are multiple layers of moral complexity, with no glib answers. A story of love, but certainly not at all an ordinary romance novel, Captivation Waltz is written for the reader who welcomes a mental challenge, delights in an unusual setting, and relishes the richness of the English language.

About the Author

POLLY VOGLER RENWICK began making things up almost as soon as she knew enough words to do so. Author of both fiction and non-fiction, she is now in her fifties and is still spinning out tales at the foot of Pikes Peak in Colorado.