How long does it take to read A Prisoner of Birth?
A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer takes about 10 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 573 pages, about 157,575 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 32 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm's history, who is going to believe your side of the story? Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped. However, Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny's determination to seek revenge, and Beth's relentless quest to pursue justice, which ends up with all four fighting for their lives, Thus begins Jeffrey Archer's most powerful novel since Kane and Abel, with a cast of characters that will remain with you long after you've turned the last page. And if that is not enough, prepare for an ending that will shock even the most ardent of Archer's fans.
Subjects: Murder, Revenge, Social classes, Witnesses, Fiction, Judicial error
