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How long does it take to read Comfort Herself?

Geraldine Kaye

Comfort Herself by Geraldine Kaye takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 2 hours 56 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1984. 160 pages, about 44,000 words. Written for children.

6 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 4 hours 53 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 2 hours 56 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 50 minutes

The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

When her mother dies, eleven-year-old Comfort leaves England to live with her father in Ghana.

Subjects: Blacks, Fiction, Interracial marriage, Racially mixed children, English, Juvenile fiction

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