How long does it take to read Offshore?
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald takes about 3 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours
A weekend read
First published 1979. 164 pages, about 45,100 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Barges, British, British Broadcasting Corporation, City and town life, Fiction, History
