How long does it take to read Silverhill?
Silverhill by Phyllis A. Whitney takes about 3 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 46 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1966. 205 pages, about 56,375 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the jacket Silverhill-a gray ghost of a house brooding among its white birch trees, which seems to Mallie Rice haunted by evil reflections from the past. In its Hall of Mirrors even her cousin Gerald Gorham, curator of the fabulous Gorham collection of treasures, hardly knows reality from illusion. Yet Mallie must discover the truth the great house so mockingly conceals. Silverhill-where the shadow of Grandmother Julia Gorham lies long across the lives of those forced to remain beneath its roof. Here Mallie must fight to understand Wayne Martin, the young doctor who deeply attracts her, fight to save her half-demented Aunt Arvilla, and at length fight for her very life. Silverhill marshalls its mysterious forces to move against Mallie, in an attempt to destroy her love and her sanity, as Aunt Arvilla's were destroyed long ago.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Families, Mystery and detective stories, England, fiction
