How long does it take to read Mrs. Tim Carries On?
leaves from the diary of an officer's wife in the year 1940
Mrs. Tim Carries On by D. E. Stevenson takes about 5 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Mrs. Tim Christie
Previous: Golden Days Next: Mrs. Tim Gets a Job
About 5 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1941. 307 pages, about 84,425 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Hester Christie, wife of Major Tim Christie, continues her diary with entries chronicling life in a military depot during the first year of WWII. From the bumptiousness of pre-Dunkirk popular British opinion, through the dark days of the Battle of Britain, Mrs. Tim carries on, although her husband's deployment with his battalion to France ends with him being MIA. How he makes his way back home, how they cope with the stress of daily existence in an embattled country, how they find reason for hope for the future, all told with a demure (but still telling) wit and humor.
Subjects: Fiction, humorous, general
