The Rooster House Av Victoria Belim

<p><b><h3></b><b>A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK</b><b></h3></b><br><b><br><h3>''<i>Wild Swans</i> for Ukraine ... rich and magnificent'' <i>Bookseller</i></h3></b><br><br><b><i>''</i>A paean to hope and home. I loved it and it will haunt me'' </b><br>HELEN MACDONALD<br><br><b>''Marvellously vivid and often heartbreaking... I read it in a single enthralled sitting''</b><br>MIRANDA SEYMOUR<br><br><b>''An instant classic: an essential book in these darkening times''</b><br>SOPHY ROBERTS<br><br><b>''Compelling, beautifully written... an insight into the complexity of Ukraine''s history''</b><br>MERIEL SCHINDLER<br><br>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.<br><br> In 2014, while the Russian state was annexing Crimea, Victoria visited