Swinging Sisters

About the Book

Swinging Sisters is a one-of-a-kind book, because there is no other story like it.

Come along for the ride with a Depression era all-girl band as they tour the country in a 1928 Packard hearse. The Texas Rangerettes garner headlines in Variety and Billboard for several years before taking a fork in the road that subsequently has Paramount Studio cameramen camping on the women's doorstep hoping to film a history-making event featuring four band members.

Based on a true story, Swinging Sisters celebrates the life of a family rooted in the Irish famine who achieves success and happiness in two diverse careers.

About the Author

Madonna Dries Christensen considered it the luck o? the Irish when she stumbled upon her McLaughlin and Jones cousins during genealogy research. She declined an offer to collaborate on a screenplay of their story and penned this authentic fictionalized account. Her amulets while writing were Gladys Jones?s 1926 sterling silver music award, and Hazel Jones?s Saint Jude medal.

Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize for fiction, her work has appeared in more than a hundred publications. She and her husband live in Sarasota, Florida, where an ancestral McLaughlin tombstone gathers moss in their garden.