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