Leaf Arbuthnot

My summer of love with God’s gift

Studying in Russia in 1994, Viv Groskop falls in love with a Ukrainian rock guitarist named Bogdan Bogdanovich and accompanies him on a visit home

Viv Groskop. [Getty Images]

  • One Ukrainian Summer: A Memoir About Falling in Love and Coming of Age in the Former Soviet Union

    Viv Groskop

    Ithaka, pp. 192, £16

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