“A thoughtful and compassionate exploration of female autonomy in the face of repressive strictures.” - Kirkus Reviews
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Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies...
Proverbs 31:10-31
About Virtuous Women
Hope's life consists of keeping her father's house and raising her ten younger siblings. Jennifer has always wanted a large family with traditional values. When Jennifer marries Hope's father, Hope believes she may be free of her father's control. That is, until Jennifer rejects her new husband's authority, throwing the family into a crisis and threatening Hope's future.
About Ann
Ann Goltz writes fiction that deals with complicated family dynamics, questions of identity, and the intersection of faith and life. After spending five years working in government finance, she became an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
No longer in active ministry, she lives in Massachusetts with her husband, two teenagers, and three cats.
Praise for Virtuous Women
“A thoughtful and compassionate exploration of female autonomy in the face of repressive strictures.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“By turns emotional, humorous, and chilling, this novel doesn't shy away from the darkness, but it also never truly lets go of hope.”
—Erin Bartels, award-winning author of We Hope for Better Things
“A riveting and immersive study on the dangers of patriarchal authority and isolation. Thought-provoking and at times shocking, a story with important themes that will stay with me long after reading.”
—Lainey Cameron, award-winning author and host of The Best of Women's Fiction Podcast
“This book will definitely haunt you.”
—Suanne Schafer, author of
A Different Kind of Fire
“I can't help but draw a parallel with the current rise of Christian nationalism in the US. For me, this parallel makes Virtuous Women both a timely and an important read.”
—Amazon Review
“I found this book very difficult to put down--one cares deeply about whether and to what degree Hope and other women in her world will be able to escape a seemingly impossible situation.”
—Goodreads Review
Also by Ann
“You need to be mother to them all.”
Meet Hope Wagner and her family two years before the events of Virtuous Women in this prequel novelette.