How long does it take to read Eva?
Eva by Peter Dickinson takes about 4 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1988. 224 pages, about 61,600 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD EVA wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma . . .But there is something, Eva senses, that she's not being told. There is a price she must pay to be alive at all. What have they done, with their amazing medical techniques, to save her?From the Paperback edition.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Transplantation of organs, tissues, Animals, Animal welfare, Chimpanzees
