How long does it take to read Devil in Velvet?
Devil in Velvet by Anne Mather takes about 3 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 190 pages, about 52,250 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Harriet had bought a holiday home in the Dordogne in the hope of finding peace and quiet there, and when her young niece was orphaned it seemed to be the ideal place to take her for a holiday. But they arrived to find that the place was a shambles – and an even worse shock was in store for Harriet. For the first person she met there – and the local lord of the manor, no less – was André Laroche, a man whom she had never expected or wanted to see again. But there was no avoiding him – with the result that in no time he was creating the same havoc in her present life as he had in her past…
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, France, fiction
