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How long does it take to read Return to Harken House?

Joan Aiken

Return to Harken House by Joan Aiken takes about 2 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 2 hours 10 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1990. 118 pages, about 32,450 words.

5 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 3 hours 36 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 2 hours 10 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 21 minutes

The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

In the 1930's eleven-year-old Julia goes to spend the summer with her playwright father and finds that he has abandoned her to the care of her pre-occupied stepmother who seems unaware of the strange voices that haunt Julia every night.

Subjects: Fiction, Ghosts

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