How long does it take to read Asta's Book?
Asta's Book by Ruth Rendell takes about 8 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 24 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1993. 458 pages, about 125,950 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keep loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold they key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing child. It falls to Asta's granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before.
Subjects: Danes, Fiction, Family secrets, Danois, Romans, nouvelles, Secrets de famille
