Sunflowers Under Fire

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In this family saga love and loss are bound together by a country always at war.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Award</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>s and </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>semi-finalist for the 2019 Kindle Book Awards</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Sunflowers Under Fire</em> is a heartbreakingly intimate novel </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>that illuminates the strength of the human spirit as shown by its courageous and inspirational heroine. 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. Readers who've enjoyed </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Nightingale</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> by Kristin Hannah have bought this book.</span></p>