How long does it take to read A Sleeping Life?
A Sleeping Life by Ruth Rendell takes about 3 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 3 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 203 pages, about 55,825 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 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Criminals always took their holidays in August, Chief Inspector Wexford erroneously reflected as he arrived home early that hot summer night. Thirty minutes later he was in a field outside the neighboring village of Kingsmarkham gazing down at a woman viciously stabbed to death. (from the dust jacket)
Subjects: Fiction, Police, Inspector Wexford (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories, Mystery, Inspector Wexford (Fictional character)
