Marion Merrick

Introduction Hungary, somé 2,000 kilometres from England, may not seem üke a very adventurous place to think of spending a year. But the year was 1982, and the country still belonged to the Eastem Bloc. There were, in fact, no more than a dozen British people resident in Budapest, none of whom we...

NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T – An Illegal gambling game played in Budapest streets – is an apt description of the world Marion Merrick encountered before its disappearance following the changes of 1989. Written in a lively and entertaining style, the book chronicles everyday life in the...