How long does it take to read A Gem of a Girl?
A Gem of a Girl by Betty Neels takes about 4 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1976. 221 pages, about 60,775 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Gemma Prentice wasn't the most beautiful girl in the world; indeed, if anyone had described her as plain no one would have contradicted them! But she was a wonderful nurse, kind and conscientious to her patients - a real 'gem of a girl", in fact. Which was why, when she found herself temporarily out of a job, the distinguished Dutch Professor Ross Dieperink van Berhuys asked her to accompany him to Holland for a time to look after his invalid sister. Gemma was delighted to accept, and in no time had fallen in love with Holland. And there was an unexpected bonus too, in the person of the devastatingly attractive Leo de Vos.....
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Nurses, fiction, Reader's Choice, Invalids, fiction, Americans, fiction, Netherlands, fiction
