In Claire Doyle’s Hollywood Balaton, the narrator, Laura, a woman of almost fifty, disillusioned with modern life and contemporary English values in Brighton and traumatized by a terror attack in Paris, arrives in Hungary. She goes to live in Levendula, the family house of Max,...

In The Budapest Artists’ Club by Claire Doyle, Laura and her boyfriend Dany have been encouraged by a group of Transylvanian musicians to leave London and come to Budapest for an extended stay. But all is not what it seems: Dany, an instrument maker, becomes...