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How long does it take to read No Orchids by Request?

Essie Summers

No Orchids by Request by Essie Summers takes about 4 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 57 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1965. 270 pages, about 74,250 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 15 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 57 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 6 minutes

The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

When an old friend gifted Elizabeth Lucinda Stirling a cottage on the Banks Peninsula, she leaped at the chance to leave the daily grind of newspaper life and focus on writing her novels. It was a pity that her new editor was as interested in romancing her as in editing her columns; it was more of a pity that her leaving the newspaper didn’t discourage him in his attentions; it was even more of a pity that he had a disreputable past that had ended in a broken marriage…but most of all it was a pity that Elizabeth couldn’t help liking him more than any man she had ever known, and couldn’t help longing for his company. Was Jeremy Ffoulkes still the unreliable Jeremy of the past? Or should Elizabeth gamble that his love for her was true?

Subjects: Fiction, romance

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