How long does it take to read Tell Me My Fortune?
Tell Me My Fortune by Mary Burchell takes about 7 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1975. 384 pages, about 105,600 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The impoverished Greeve family used to say in moments of financial crisis, 'There's always Great-Aunt Tabitha' — thinking of the fortune which the very old lady was due to leave them. The one exception was Leslie Greeve, for whom the future meant only Oliver Bendick — the man it was generally agreed she would one day marry. But when Great-Aunt Tabitha did considerately die, the way ahead was not so simple as it had seemed. Into their lives (not least Leslie's) burst Reid Carthay, self-confident, cynical, a disturbing stranger with power to affect all the members of the Greeve family without exception...
Subjects: Fiction, romance, Livres en gros caractères