How long does it take to read Mail-Order Marriage?
Mail-Order Marriage by Margaret Way takes about 3 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Legends of the Outback
Next: The Bridesmaid's Wedding
About 3 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 185 pages, about 50,875 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After backbreaking years spent building up his Outback cattle station, Matthew Carlyle was ready for family life. With little time for courting, he'd advertised in the paper, and one reply in particular stood out. Why was the beautiful Cassie Stirling, of all people, applying to become his wife? He knew her privileged background and, although he believed her claim to want marriage -- children -- as much as he did, he couldn't imagine her adapting to isolated Outback life. Besides, Cassie deserved the best and he was a man with a scandal in his past. But then, Cassie was hiding a secret of her own...
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
