Bed Table Door - Csilla Toldy
Csilla Toldy has three collections of poetry with Lapwing Belfast (2013, 2015, 2018), Firebird (Arlen, 2025), Angel Fur and other stories with Stupor Mundi (2019), the novels Bed Table Door (Wrecking Ball Press, 2023, Stupor Mundi 2025), which won the Desmond Elliott Prize Residency, and Kata (Open Books Hungary 2024).
GENRE: Historical fiction
Blurb:
Love without borders. Freedom at any cost. 1980s Budapest is a pressure cooker of corruption, surveillance, and silence. Seventeen-year-old Sofie is desperate to break out. Samu is twenty, trapped by a brutal father and a country that won't let him be who he is. There solution - each other. Bed Table Door is a sweeping coming-of-age novel set between Cold War-era Hungary and Thatcher’s Britain with political depth, emotional intensity and humour.
