How long does it take to read Fingersmith?
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters takes about 10 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2002. 560 pages, about 154,000 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Set in Victorian Britain, Fingersmith follows Sue Trinder, an orphan raised among thieves by her adoptive mother, Mrs Sucksby, in the Borough of London. A con man known as Gentleman recruits her for a scheme. She is to take a post as maid to Maud Lilly, a sheltered heiress living at the isolated country house of Briar under her strict uncle, and win Maud's trust so that Maud will marry Gentleman. Sue travels to Briar to carry out the plan, but life in the house and her bond with Maud complicate her task.
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Subjects: Fiction, Social conditions, Pickpockets, Fiction, historical, London (england), fiction, LGBTQ historical fiction
