‘A window into the experience and thoughts of Ukrainians…this book welds words and pictures together with great poetic force’ Andrey Kurkov‘

'A timely reminder of war’s violent intrusion into ordinary lives of ordinary people. Behind the headlines of the war in Ukraine, Hudson vividly describes a family whose daily activities take on symbolic significance when their lives are changed utterly by war.’ Clive Myrie. BBC

You Will Feel it in the Price of Bread serves as a diary of memories, a record of turbulence and a prayer of hope for the future. With this book I send a love letter to Ukraine’ Katya Hudson

Powerful, and beautifully evocative, a personal memoir of family and homeland. 

Katya Hudson was at university in the UK when Russia invaded Ukraine. Cut off from her homeland and beloved Grandma Babushka Zhana she was devastated and moved to record this heartfelt memoir.

From Katya’s idyllic childhood with her siblings: holidays in Crimea and carefree days working the land at the Dacha; to the sickening impact of Putin’s invasion and its effect on Katya, her friends and family – the anxiety, fear and heartache. The desperate attempts to contact friends and ensure that loved ones are safe.this memoir vividly portrays the cruel impact of war. 

Through it all bestrides Babushka, Katya’s ‘favourite person on earth.’ When she is not growing vegetables, she is reading the sexy bits from novels out loud to her granddaughter. But in this last year she has turned her hand to a recipe of a different type - Molotov cocktails - in preparation for an attack on her apartment block. 

Combining prose, poetry, collage, maps and illustrations this is a truly immersive memoir – an authentic portrait of the impact of war.