Constance Bierkan grew up in Zürich, Switzerland and London, England. She sat her Ordinary and Advanced Level exams administered by the University of London and earned a BA in English Literature and a minor in Semantics at Skidmore College and Goucher College. She worked toward a Master’s at Fairfield University in Psychology. Bierkan’s debut novel, Alone In A Crowded Room—An Adoption Story, published in 2017, received a Kirkus Star and was named Kirkus Best Book Indie 2018. Her second novel, Free To Breathe, has enjoyed enough success that there is demand for a sequel. Fluent in French and German, Bierkan loves to read, people watch, and travel. She and her best friend-husband-Naval-Aviator-veteran-airline-pilot-gentleman-tree-farmer, live at 8,200 feet in the Colorado Rockies.
In Spite of It All
by Constance Bierkan
In Spite of It All
by Constance Bierkan
Published Dec 19, 2021
383 Pages
Genre: FICTION / Historical / World War II
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While Claire had decided it best to drop her objections to Billy’s going to war, privately, she had not changed her mind about the war. To her, there was no valor to be had in joining this or any other battle. Violence only begot more violence, and despite what political leaders might have claimed at victory parties no one was ever really the winner. How could there be? Blood was shed, lives snuffed out, family members and friends left behind to live the rest of their days grieving. War seized that which was most precious and could never be restored—property, limb, one’s very existence. At twenty-seven, Billy had no business joining those fresh-faced, foolish boys—babies, really—lined up on every other city block eager to get themselves killed. That Billy had been lured away from Claire by a bigger sense of duty than that which he had vowed to her at the altar was hard to comprehend.
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