How long does it take to read The Afterglow?
Alpine Doctor
The Afterglow by Pamela Kent takes about 3 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1966. 189 pages, about 51,975 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Lacey Cavendish enjoyed her job as English teacher at an exclusive girls' finishing school in Switzerland - but she certainly had no intention of following the example of her young charges and falling in love with the school doctor, Roger Soames. She didn't even like Doctor Soames very much - he was rude and dictatorial, and the pupils were welcome to him - so Lacey turned her feelings in another direction, that of Doctor Ludwig Heist. But this was equally hopeless, she soon realised. Doctor Heist may or may not have been interested either in a charming pupil, or in the more sophisticated Gerda Reisenfeld, but he certainly wasn't going to notice Lacey!
