How long does it take to read Lamentation?
Lamentation by C. J. Sansom takes about 11 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Shardlake series
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About 11 hours 55 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2001. 650 pages, about 178,750 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 27 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry's successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, and the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned at the stake, the Catholic party focus their attack on Henry's sixth wife, Matthew Shardlake's old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr. Shardlake, still haunted by events aboard the warship Mary Rose the year before, is working on the Cotterstoke Will case, a savage dispute between rival siblings. Then, unexpectedly, he is summoned to Whitehall Palace and asked for help by his old patron, the now beleaguered and desperate Queen.
Subjects: Matthew Shardlake (Fictitious character), Fiction, Lawyers, History, Lawyers, fiction, Great britain, fiction
