Finalist, BBC Ukraine Book of the Year 2018What is life really like inside a women's prison?Roses Behind Barbed Wire is a powerful memoir based on the author's own experience of imprisonment in a modern Ukrainian prison. Set in a women's correctional facility in Crimea, the book takes readers behind the barbed wire and into a hidden world rarely seen by outsiders. It is a world of fear and hope, friendship and betrayal, despair and resilience-a world governed by its own rules.
Written by a woman who lived through incarceration herself, this memoir offers a rare and deeply personal account of female prison life. Honest, intimate, and often heartbreaking, it reveals not only the reality of confinement, but also the strength required to survive it. A finalist for BBC Ukraine's Book of the Year Award, Roses Behind Barbed Wire is a story of endurance, humanity, and the search for freedom in the darkest of places.
Finalist, BBC Ukraine Book of the Year 2018What is life really like inside a women's prison?Roses Behind Barbed Wire is a powerful memoir based on the author's own experience of imprisonment in a modern Ukrainian prison. Set in a women's correctional facility in Crimea, the book takes readers behind the barbed wire and into a hidden world rarely seen by outsiders. It is a world of fear and hope, friendship and betrayal, despair and resilience-a world governed by its own rules.
Written by a woman who lived through incarceration herself, this memoir offers a rare and deeply personal account of female prison life. Honest, intimate, and often heartbreaking, it reveals not only the reality of confinement, but also the strength required to survive it. A finalist for BBC Ukraine's Book of the Year Award, Roses Behind Barbed Wire is a story of endurance, humanity, and the search for freedom in the darkest of places.