NIGHT TRAIN TO ODESA
‘Jen Stout is very brave. And she is a storyteller of supreme gifts.
I am in awe of her resourcefulness and courage’
FERGAL KEANE, Foreign Correspondent with BBC News
‘Jam-packed with vivid insight and empathy,
journalism that’s full of heart’
PARAIC O’BRIEN, Foreign Affairs
Correspondent with Channel 4 News
‘Jen Stout has a rare gift for rendering moments in time, and her
descriptions of nature, season and landscape are beautifully etched,
often hauntingly so. This is the work of a writer with
an exciting future ahead of her’
JON LEE ANDERSON, author, war correspondent,
AND STAFF WRITER for The New Yorker
‘Night Train to Odesa is unlike any other book you’ll read on Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine. Her reporting is caring and immediate
and this account is honest, intelligent, and visceral’
QUENTIN SOMMERVILLE, BBC’s Middle East Correspondent
‘Jen Stout shows not only great courage in her reporting
on the ground, but the immense human cost of
war, told with passion and clarity’
JANINE DI GIOVANNI, award-winning author,
journalist and war correspondent
‘Jen Stout’s writing fizzes with energy, passion and, above all,
compassion for the characters she meets whose lives have been turned
upside down by a conflict they never wanted’
PETER GEOGHEGAN, author, broadcaster and contributing journalist
for The New York Times, the Guardian and London Review of Books
‘A must-read for anyone interested in the impact of
the Russian invasion’
DANI GARAVELLI, award-winning journalist
‘A celebration of Ukraine and a lament for it. This extraordinary
book may have been written in compassion and anger,
but the note that rings out is love’
PETER ROSS, Orwell journalism fellow and award-winning
author of Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
‘Night Train to Odesa is a thrilling read. Rich in reportage and infused
with a deep knowledge of Ukraine, it is a masterful
book from one of the best young journalists in Britain’
DAVID PATRIKARAKOS, author, journalist
and war correspondent
‘Jen Stout’s heart-seizing account of Ukraine at war brings
us that nation’s living presence like no other book’
NEAL ASCHERSON, author and award-winning journalist
‘Night Train to Odesa is by turns sad and inspiring
– and unfailingly fascinating’
JAMES RODGERS, author of Assignment Moscow:
Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin
‘In Night Train to Odesa Jen Stout connects us intimately to the story of
a nation rising in defiance. She weaves deep sympathy for the human
struggle with a layered understanding of history, politics, and the
complex loyalties of a society under threat’