How long does it take to read If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things?
Jon McGregor
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor takes about 5 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2002. 282 pages, about 77,550 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
On a street in an unnamed town in the north of England, perfectly ordinary people are doing totally ordinary things - but then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening and no one who witnesses it will be quite the same again.
Subjects: City and town life, Fiction, Life change events, Fiction, general, England, fiction, Événements stressants de la vie