How long does it take to read Fine Things?
Fine Things by Danielle Steel takes about 7 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 412 pages, about 113,300 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 43 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Riding on the crest of a highly successful career, Bernie Fine was moving to fast to realise that he had everything - except what he wanted most. Sent to San Francisco to open the smartest department store in California, Bernie becomes aware of the hollowness of his personal life. Despite his success he grows increasingly disenchanted - until five-year-old Jane O'Reilly gets lost in the store. Through Jane, Bernie meets her mother Liz, who finally offers him the possibility of love. But the rare happiness they find together is disrupted by tragedy and Bernie must face the terrible price we sometime have to pay for love ...
Subjects: Fiction, Parent and child, Widowers, Businessmen, Single fathers, Love stories
