How long does it take to read Abduction?
Abduction by Charlotte Lamb takes about 3 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1981. 188 pages, about 51,700 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 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 27 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
Surely the most terrifying thing that could happen to any woman must be for her child to be snatched – and indeed it was without doubt the worst thing that had happened to Marisa; that moment when she came out of a shop to find baby Jamie vanished would always feel like the end of everything. For most women in that dreadful situation, though, it would at least be some comfort to be sustained by their husband’s love – but for Marisa it only meant that t had brought her estranged husband Gabriel back on the scene; the last thing she had wanted to happen. For nothing had changed in the two years since she had last seen him; the same gap still yawned between them. And meanwhile – where was Jamie?
