There is no change more radical in the life of any person than that which comes about when they come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Every part of their being is touched, and at the deepest level. In these thrilling accounts, Faith Cook takes individuals from the sixteenth to the twentieth century and tells the story of how they were each in their turn ‘surprised by God.’

These wonderful and well-told stories will warm your heart and give you cause for praising the God who seeks out sinners. This is biography with it’s main focus in just the right place, told as it should be by a writer of whom Dale Ralph Davis said ‘I am tempted to say that no one can dig up saints like Faith Cook!’

Note: This title is a revised edition, formerly titled ‘Lives Turned Upside Down’.

Faith Cook, the daughter of OMF missionaries, was born in China and now lives in Derbyshire, England. She is the author of many other titles including Stronger than the sword; Anne Bradstreet – pilgrim and poet; Stars in God’s sky; Lady Jane Grey, nine-day queen of England; Fearless Pilgrim, the life of John Bunyan; Our hymn-writers and their hymns; Seeing the invisible; Under the scaffold (a novel based on the life and times of William Grimshaw); Caught in the web; and Living the Christian life, a joint publication with her husband Paul. They have five children and ten grandchildren.