How long does it take to read A Christmas Gambol?
A Christmas Gambol by Joan Smith takes about 3 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 58 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 216 pages, about 59,400 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Joan Smith farce. Lord Montaigne is felled by a broken heart and a broken leg. While recuperating, he pens a romance, Chaos is Come Again, which becomes a runaway success, Montaigne is embarrassed and keen to hide the identity of the author, not only because of his status and gender, but also because he has based the best-seller on his failed romance. A nobody from the country, Cecily Caldwell, agrees to pose as the anonymous author, although she is told it has been written by Montaigne’s aunt. Cecily agrees because she has a novel of her own to introduce to a London publisher, and she wants to do research on London society (including Lord Montaigne and his sister) for her next novel. The Christmas theme is slight.
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency, Impostors and imposture, fiction, Women novelists, fiction, Christmas, Women authors, fiction, Fiction, general
