How long does it take to read A Stranger's Wife?
A Stranger's Wife by Maggie Osborne takes about 6 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 45 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 368 pages, about 101,200 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Hard-luck Lily Dale is released early from the Yuma Women's Prison under the provision that she temporarily impersonate the wife of Colorado gubernatorial candidate Quinn Westin, a powerfully handsome man with grand ideas for reform and a demonic drive to implement them. Now his plans include Lily, identical twin to his runaway wife. Quinn and his power hungry political advisor undertake the unlikely transformation of dirty and disheveled Lily into the model of gentility and social grace that was Miriam Westin. The transformation goes more smoothly than expected, and Quinn finds himself succumbing to the temptations of this spirited version of Miriam, who is so hauntingly like her, and yet so charmingly not. Once in the vanished woman's shoes, Lily is privy to some of Miriam's secret former activities, making her increasingly suspicious--and then fearful--about the real cause of the mysterious woman's disappearance. Lily decides she must find out for herself, despite a growing certainty that this man she finds herself unable to resist may in fact be behind his wife's demise. After all, Quinn will do anything to get what he wants, and
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Social life and customs, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, romance, general
