How long does it take to read My Brother's Ghost?
My Brother's Ghost by Allan Ahlberg takes about 1 hour 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 30 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2000. 82 pages, about 22,550 words. Written for children.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Frances Foggarty, now in her fifties, remembers her childhood.. When she was nine her ten-year-old brother, Tom, was hit by a milk-float and killed. He returns after the funeral and Frances's story is of her new relationship with Tom, the ghost and 'guardian angel'. Frances wears a caliper as a result of polio and she and her young brother live with a rather tyrannical aunt. In this touching tale of loss, hardship and endurance Frances comes to terms with Tom's death and moves on in her life.
Subjects: Death, Brothers and sisters, Aunts, Juvenile fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Fiction
