Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Award
In this family saga, the first book of Lukia's Family Saga series, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war.
In 1915, Lukia Mazurets, a Ukrainian farmwife, delivers her eighth child while her husband is serving in the Tsar's army. Soon after, she and her children are forced to flee the invading Germans. Over the next fourteen years, Lukia must rely on her wits and faith to survive life in a refugee camp, the ravages of a typhus epidemic, the Bolshevik revolution, unimaginable losses, and one daughter's forbidden love.
Sunflowers Under Fire is a heartbreakingly intimate novel that illuminates the strength of the human spirit. Based on the true stories of her grandmother's ordeals, author Diana Stevan captures the voices of those who had little say in a country that is still being fought over.
Other books by Diana Stevan
A Jill of all trades, author Diana Stevan worked as a clinical social worker, but also as a teacher, librarian, model, actress and a sports writer-broadcaster for CBC television. She’s published newspaper articles, poetry, a short story, a novelette and three novels: A Cry From The Deep, romantic mystery/adventure; The Rubber Fence, women's fiction, and Sunflowers Under Fire.
Sunflowers Under Fire, historical fiction, was a finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards, and a semi-finalist for the 2019 Kindle Book Awards, Literary Fiction category.
With two daughters grown, Diana lives with her husband Robert on Vancouver Island and West Vancouver, British Columbia.
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