Book Review: Behind the Lights

 

Behind the Lights

The Extraordinary Adventure of a Mum and Her Family

by Helen Smallbone

Pub Date 12 Apr 2022 

 K-LOVE Books 

 Biographies & Memoirs  |  Christian  |  Nonfiction (Adult)

I am reviewing a copy of Behind the Lights through K-Love Books and Netgalley:

Helen Smallbone is the mother of seven creative children, including Christian music artists for KING & COUNTRY and Rebecca St. James chronicles the family’s journey of faith across the ocean to go where God was leading.  Behind the Lights is written from a Mothers perspective, and shares the stories of peaks, valleys, and a family trusting God for provision.

In this heartfelt memoir Helen Smallbone’s heartfelt story illustrates what it means to really let God lead, which almost always means living outside the box of how the world says to live.   How did an ordinary Australian family produce two Grammy Award–winning artists—Rebecca St. James and for KING & COUNTRY? What happened to bring the Smallbones through closed doors and to new beginnings in the United States? In Behind the Lights, Helen shares not only these stories of her family but of the life lessons they all learned along the way.

Helen and her husband, David, packed up their family and sixteen suitcases to move from Australia to the United States in 1991.  They were isolated from the support of family and friends, they relied on God to provide them with hope and direction. Helen watched her children join forces as Rebecca St. James’ career grew, soon followed by blossoming careers for the others—as artists, entrepreneurs, filmmakers—and the rise of Joel and Luke’s for KING & COUNTRY on Christian music charts

I give Behind the Lights five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!