How long does it take to read Firefly Summer?
Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy takes about 12 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 4 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1987. 658 pages, about 180,950 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 46 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old twins... and such wonderful dreams.... It was a summer of innocence... but all that is about to change this fateful summer of 1962 when American millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm and a pocketful of money... when love and hate vie for a town's quiet heart and old traditions begin to crumble away.... It was a summer of love that would never come again.... A time that has been captured forever in Maeve Binchy's compelling family drama... a novel you will never forget.From the Paperback edition.
Subjects: Fiction, Hotelkeepers, Country life, Americans, Irish-Americans, Irish Americans
