“Book Descriptions: Finalist 2019 Whistler Independent Book Award , Semi-Finalist in Literary Fiction 2019 Kindle Book Award, and Honorable Mention Literary/Commercial Fiction, 2020 Writers Digest Self-Published Book Awards.
In this family saga and Great War story, love and loss are bound together by a country always at war. A heartbreakingly intimate novel about one courageous woman.
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.
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 Kristin Hannah's novel The Nightingale have bought this book.
Available as a paperback, e-book and audiobook.” DRIVE