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How long does it take to read Born in Shame?

Nora Roberts

Born in Shame by Nora Roberts takes about 6 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 3 of The Concannon Sisters or Born in Trilogy

Previous: Born in Ice

About 6 hours 33 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1996. 357 pages, about 98,175 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 55 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 33 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 5 minutes

The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A talented graphic artist, Shannon Bodine's life revolved around her job at a prestigious New York advertising agency. But her world was turned upside-down when she learned the identity of her real father: Thomas Concannon. Respecting her late mother's last wish, Shannon reluctantly traveled to County Clare. There, her loneliness and shame melted away in the embrace of the family she never knew existed. And amid the lush Irish landscape steeped in mysticism and legend, she discovered the possibility of a love that was meant to be...

Subjects: Irish Americans, Women artists, Fiction, Americans, Ireland, Love stories, American

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