A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
''Wild Swans for Ukraine ... rich and magnificent'' Bookseller
''A paean to hope and home. I loved it and it will haunt me'' HELEN MACDONALD
''Marvellously vivid and often heartbreaking... I read it in a single enthralled sitting''MIRANDA SEYMOUR
''An instant classic: an essential book in these darkening times''SOPHY ROBERTS
''Compelling, beautifully written... an insight into the complexity of Ukraine''s history''MERIEL SCHINDLER
In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House, an elegant mansion with two voluptuous red roosters flanking the door. It doesn''t look horrifying. And yet, when Victoria was a girl growing up in the 1980s, her great-grandmother would take pains to avoid walking past it.
In 2014, while the Russian state was annexing Crimea, Victoria visited
