How long does it take to read I Never Promised You A Rose Garden?
Hannah Green
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Hannah Green takes about 4 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1965. 236 pages, about 64,900 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Psychological novel based on the author's experience of schizophrenia. A sixteen-year-old girl is committed to a mental hospital when she retreats into a disturbing fantasy world. This is the story of her journey back to sanity. Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.
Subjects: Schizophrenie, Psychiatrie, Children's fiction, Mental illness, fiction, Mentally ill, fiction, Adolescence, fiction
