How long does it take to read A Painful Loving?
A Painful Loving by Margaret Mayo takes about 3 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 187 pages, about 51,425 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
He made it clear just what he was after Maybe everyone else on Lakades, including Kara Lincroft's sister who insisted she visit, thought Aleko Tranakas the perfect antidote for a young widow's loneliness and grief. But not Kara. She didn't want an affair, least of all with a practiced womanizer whose seductive charms reminded her of her husband. She wouldn't make that mistake again! Despite Aleko's talents for stirring dormant fires, Kara believed that she could spend two weeks on his tiny, enchanted Greek island without falling under his spell and into his bed. How wrong she was....
Subjects: Widows, Fiction, Fiction, general