How long does it take to read Pale Dawn, Dark Sunset?
Pale Dawn, Dark Sunset by Anne Mather takes about 3 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1975. 192 pages, about 52,800 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Miranda travelled to Mexico to find out if the child who was being looked after in a Catholic mission was in fact her niece, Lucy, who had been given up for dead after the air disaster in which Miranda’s sister and brother-in-law had been killed. She found that the child was in good hands – those of Juan Cueras, who had more or less adopted the child and seemed genuinely to love her. Juan was helpful, but it was his enigmatic brother Rafael to whom Miranda felt most drawn. But the two brothers seemed destined to bring her nothing but unhappiness – for would it be fair to take the child away from the person with whom she had settled so happily? While Rafael seemed to have no feelings for Miranda at all…
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
