A Family of Good Women

Joe Holley, Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and author

“Only a wise, witty and compassionate novelist could rescue from the dry pages of history a group of Victorian-era Texas women who resolved to no longer live as "man's chattel." Teddy Jones is that novelist. Inspired by the remarkable—and not widely known—Sanctified Sisters of Belton, she tells an ingenious story within a story that brings two generations of strong women to vivid and engaging life.”

John Dufresne, author of My Darling Boy

“Award-winning novelist and speaker Teddy Jones is back with a riveting and gorgeous novel that is a braiding of a family’s fifty-year saga on one hand and the struggles of a single woman making her way in the down-and-dirty man’s world that was the Borger, Texas, oil patch in the 1920s on the other. Just try to catch your breath. Teddy Jones knows that telling a suspenseful story means making up secrets and revealing them slowly. So many secrets here, so much treachery, corruption, and greed. And so much kindness. Read this heartfelt and poignant novel, friends. Trust me, you’ll love these characters as much as the author so obviously does. A Family of Good Women is such a celebration of decency, resolve, and love that you’ll want to throw a party for the book when you’ve finished.”

Cynthia Leal Massey, award-winning author of Well of Deception

“A Family of Good Women takes readers to Prohibition-era Texas, with the finely wrought characters of Imogene Good and her “cousin” Sue Ellen Good, descendants of early members of a religious sect of women, slowly peeling away the layers of their past lives. In the boarding house they run, Imogene and Sue Ellen find themselves surrounded by the very thing their female ancestors felt compelled to shun—men. What the young women learn is both scary and wonderful.”