A review by ipb1
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie

4.0

The meeting of two medieval women mystics doesn't appear to promise the most propulsive of plots, but this was a quietly compelling narrative. It is a long time since I read [b:The Book of Margery Kempe|22186955|The Book of Margery Kempe|Margery Kempe|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1400499589l/22186955._SY75_.jpg|296207] and [b:Revelations of Divine Love|370774|Revelations of Divine Love (Short Text and Long Text)|Julian of Norwich|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1420607880l/370774._SY75_.jpg|360743], but the voices of the two protagonists seemed to marry with my memory of the language of their respective 'revelations'. It is oddly full of anachronistic moments which in a more world-building historical novel would be jarring, but here where the focus is the interior life of two divinely inspired/mentally ill women such errors are secondary and easily ignored.