How long does it take to read Mrs. Tim Flies Home?
Mrs. Tim Flies Home by D. E. Stevenson takes about 5 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Mrs. Tim Christie
Previous: Mrs. Tim Gets a Job
About 5 hours 12 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1952. 284 pages, about 78,100 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The war is over and Mrs Tim Christie, regimental CO's wife, reluctantly leaves her husband in Kenya and flies home to England. In the quiet backwater of Old Quinings, she faces a vindictive landlady and a maliciously gossiping neighbor, in addition to coping with postwar austerity (although rationing and the servant shortage don't seem to affect her greatly!) and the tribulations - romantic and otherwise - of friends and relations. Old friend Tony shows up to help Mrs. Tim out of her difficulties, inadvertently feeding the fires of scandal in the absence of Col Christie. This is the last book in a series of 4 about Mrs Tim, though each can be read alone.
Subjects: Great Britain, Great Britain. Army, Army spouses, Military life, Fiction, Fiction, humorous, general
