How long does it take to read Mystery Flowers?
Mystery Flowers by Grace Livingston Hill takes about 5 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1936. 309 pages, about 84,975 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 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From inner flap: Diana Disston, a winsome, sweet-faced lass, has grown very close to her father since the death of her lovely mother whom they both adored. One morning, however, when Diana has been awaiting word that her father will be home from a business trip, the blow falls cruelly upon her. Couched in affectionate, yet strangely distant terms, comes a letter telling her that he is to be married again and to a distant cousin, only a few years older than herself, whom Diana has had reason to distrust even as a child. When the couple returns Diana can see only too clearly how subtly Helen has poisoned the mind of father against daughter. But in the midst of her sorrow, she holds secretly against her heart the sweet mystery of some unknown person who, morning after morning in the time of her deepest trouble, has dropped for her a single, fragrant pink carnation in the same place on the dewy grass. How a reconciliation with her father is finally effected, how the "mystery flowers" are at last explained and how a new and more perfect happiness comes to Diana— these, under the sympathetic pen of Grace Livingston Hill, make a beautiful and moving story.
