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How long does it take to read A Company of Swans?

Eva Ibbotson

A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson takes about 5 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 3 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1985. 275 pages, about 75,625 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 24 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 3 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 9 minutes

The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Harriet Morton is the daughter of a priggish and pompous professor, living in Cambridge. They live with his maiden sister who is sanctimonious and mean. There is no love in that house. The only concession they have given young Harriet, is dance. Here she is invited to join a ballet company based in Manaus in the Amazon area. Running away from home, she truly begins the adventure of living her life... Romain Versey, formerly of Stavely in Cambridge has been away from home since the age of 19 due to a wicked stepbrother and after being betrayed in love. He went off to the Amazon to seek his fortune and is now extremely wealthy. As the president of the theatre where Harriet's company is based, Romain meets his one true love. Will the two manage to overcome abductions and misunderstanding to be together?

Subjects: Ballet dancers, Fiction, Ficción, Bailarines de ballet, Fiction, romance, general

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