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OverviewAn Inspirational Family Saga, that started with the Award-Winning Sunflowers Under Fire. On Miramichi Readers' List of Best Fiction for 2022. Wars, typhus, drought and family losses could not stop Lukia Mazurec. Will her children's indifference finally break her spirit? With the Great Depression ending and Hitler's armies marching across Europe, the young in Canada are called upon to enlist. Though her children are not eligible to serve, Lukia Mazurec can't count on them to help her manage her farm in Manitoba. Her sons are at odds, their fights getting uglier every day, and her daughter, Dolly, has fallen in love with Peter, an intelligent but poor man uninterested in farming. Lukia's dream of family unity is crumbling, as one by one her children leave, forcing her to make some hard decisions. Can she rise to the challenge or is this one test too many? Based on the true story of Diana Stevan's grandmother, this is the third book of Lukia's Family Saga trilogy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Diana StevanPublisher: Island House Publishing Imprint: Island House Publishing Edition: Large type / large print edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.998kg ISBN: 9781988180212ISBN 10: 198818021 Pages: 692 Publication Date: 10 July 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationDiana Stevan likes to joke she's a Jill of all trades as she's worked as a family therapist, teacher, librarian, model, actress and sports reporter for CBC television. With writing her passion, she's published newspaper articles, poetry, a short story, a novelette, and five novels.Her novels cross genres: A Cry from the Deep (2014), a time-slip romantic mystery/adventure; The Rubber Fence (2016), women's fiction, inspired by her work on a psychiatric ward in the 1970s; Sunflowers Under Fire, (a finalist for the 2019 Whistler Independent Book Awards) historical/biographical fiction; Lilacs in the Dust Bowl (2021), historical/biographical fiction, and Paper Roses on Stony Mountain (Miramichi Reader's List of Best Fiction of 2022) historical/biographical fiction.When she isn't writing, she loves to garden, travel, and read. With their two daughters grown, Diana lives with her husband Robert on Vancouver Island and West Vancouver, British Columbia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |