How long does it take to read Irish Tweed?
a Nuala Anne McGrail novel
Irish Tweed by Andrew M. Greeley takes about 4 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Nuala Anne McGrail series
Previous: Irish Tiger
About 4 hours 39 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 254 pages, about 69,850 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne, investigate the brutal beating of Finnbar Burke, the "nice fella" with whom their shy, golden-haired nanny has fallen in love, who is found floating in the Chicago River. Set in late nineteenth-century Chicago.
Subjects: Irish Americans, Women detectives, Irish Americans in fiction, Fiction, Women detectives in fiction, Irish americans, fiction
