How long does it take to read Smokescreen?
Smokescreen 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 1982. 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 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
On the face of it, after her tycoon husband’s death, Olivia had the world as her oyster. She could not pretend to be brokenhearted – how could she, when the marriage had been strictly one of convenience, to put it at its mildest? - and as a result she was now an immensely rich and powerful widow. Nevertheless, she felt very concerned that her husband’s son Alex, who had been estranged from him for so long, had been left nothing, and she was determined to set matters right. But then she met Alex – and found that his love was the one thing in the world she could not have…
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
