How long does it take to read Celandine?
Celandine by Steve Augarde takes about 9 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Touchstone Trilogy
Previous: The Various
About 9 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2006. 496 pages, about 136,400 words. Written for children.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
She reached up to turn the brass door handle of the second-class carriage, and felt that this time she would suceed, that the sunshine train would take her away from all that was hateful and bring her safely home, at last, to her friends. The year is 1915, Britain is at war, and life for Celandine has become unbearable. Bullied at boarding school, where she is accused of being a witch, and haunted by the loss of her brother, Celandine runs away to a place known only to her: the secret world of the little people. But her existence among the Various is no less dangerous than the one she left behind, for the little people are also at war, and Celandine is in the line of fire...
Subjects: Fiction, History, Self-acceptance, Farm life, Fairies, Extrasensory perception
