How long does it take to read Jake Howard's Wife?
Jake Howard's Wife by Anne Mather takes about 3 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1973. 192 pages, about 52,800 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Jake Howard was immensely attractive, immensely rich; he had worked his way up from nothing to become immensely successful. His wife Helen was the perfect complement to him – beautiful, intelligent, well bred. To all appearances they were a perfect couple with a perfect marriage. But appearances can be – and were – deceptive, for the marriage was in reality anything but perfect. Jake had chosen Helen purely as a lovely possession to crown his success; she had accepted him as the only alternative to earning her own living. Her only feeling for him was indignation that he should object to her friendship with Keith Mannering, while expecting her to turn a blind eye to Jake’s many girl-friends. How could such a marriage, built on such shaky foundations, possibly last?
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
