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How long does it take to read Life After Life?

Kate Atkinson

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson takes about 9 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 9 hours 42 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2013. 529 pages, about 145,475 words.

20 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 16 hours 10 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 9 hours 42 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 6 hours 4 minutes

The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she?

Subjects: Reincarnation, FICTION, Literary, Englisch, Roman, Suspense

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