How long does it take to read Palace of the Peacocks?
Palace of the Peacocks by Violet Winspear takes about 5 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1969. 275 pages, about 75,625 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 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Through force of circumstances, Temple Lane found herself the only white girl on a small island in the Java Seas. But the real problem was how to cope with the dangerous attraction of her employer, the magnetic Dutchman Ryk van Helden.
