How long does it take to read Silk?
Silk by Penny Jordan takes about 13 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 37 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 743 pages, about 204,325 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The first in a multi-generational trilogy by mega-seller Penny Jordan is set in the decadent world of the silk industry.SILK opens in Cheshire the 1920s, a time of great glamour and decadence, high living and loose morality. We follow an immensely powerful family who have made their considerable fortune from silk, clothing Queen Victoria in her lengthy widowhood and supplying top fashion houses the world over - a dynasty that hides a scandalous past behind its glamorous facade...
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Social life and customs, Silk industry, Manners and customs, History
