How long does it take to read Harriet's Daughter?
Audio Cassette
M. Nourbese Philip
Harriet's Daughter by M. Nourbese Philip takes about 2 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 45 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1988. 150 pages, about 41,250 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Margaret is fourteen and wants to help her best friend, Zulma, escape from Canada and fly back to Tobago to live with her grandmother. But, coming to terms with growing-up, relationships and responsibilities is not quite so straitforward, and the parental threat of 'Good West Indian Discipline' is never far removed. This is a charming, humorous and perceptive tale of adolescence and the friendship of two young African American girls.
Subjects: Fiction, Friendship in fiction, Canada in fiction, Blacks, Blacks in fiction, Friendship
