How long does it take to read Fire and Hemlock?
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones takes about 7 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1970. 420 pages, about 115,500 words. Written for children.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Polly has two sets of memories... One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening adventures she embarked on with Tom Lynn after that. And then she did something terrible, and everything changed. But what did she do? Why can't she remember? Polly must uncover the secret, or her true love — and perhaps Polly herself — will be lost.
Subjects: Children of divorced parents, Fantasy, Juvenile fiction, Urns, magic, T.S. Eliot
