How long does it take to read Eight Months on Ghazzah Street?
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel takes about 5 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1988. 298 pages, about 81,950 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
". . . gives in exquisite and painful detail the reactions of one woman to living in a Middle Eastern country with all the cultural alienation and darkness that lie beneath surface of expatriate life." (Livi Michael, Good Fiction Guide, Oxford)
Subjects: Apartment houses, British, Fiction, British -- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, horror
