I am aware of at least some of the real people portrayed and admit to checking to see what genre this book fell in as I had enormous difficulty believing it to be Historical Fiction. Hysterical Fiction more like as it read like a Religious Fantasy novel. 

Whilst I did finish the book, when reading fiction, one needs to be able to willingly suspend disbelief but this book made it impossible and my face must have been a picture of my incredulity. 

The spoken words and their tone were hard to believe. The characters were as shallow as the people they portrayed and so hard to believe in. As to the miracles, do not get me started. Rated 2 stars rather than 1 because my disbelief persuaded me to complete the book.