How long does it take to read Meridon?
Meridon by Philippa Gregory takes about 10 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Wideacre trilogy
Previous: The Favoured Child
About 10 hours 26 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1990. 569 pages, about 156,475 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Meridon, a desolate Romany girl, is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelling show, while her sister Dandy risks her life on the trapeze, Meridon dedicates herself to freeing them both from danger and want. But Dandy, beautiful, impatient, thieving, grabs too much, too quickly. And Meridon finds herself alone, riding in bitter grief through the rich Sussex farmlands towards a house called Wideacre – which awaits the return of the last of the Laceys. Sweeping, passionate, unique: Meridon completes Philippa Gregory’s bestselling trilogy which began with Wideacre and continued with The Favoured Child.
Subjects: Fiction, Women circus performers, Circus, Country homes, Romanies, Fiction, historical
