How long does it take to read Fancy Free?
Fancy Free by Charlotte Grey 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.
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 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Orphaned Harriet Devenish has spent all her life at a girls’ school where she receives regular payments of funds from a mysterious benefactor. Chagrined at having no family however, she invents a dashing guardian, Lord Richard Halton, to whom she sends regular letters. One day though, an actual Lord Richard Halton shows up, interested in finding out who has been writing him all these years.
