How long does it take to read The Beach Club?
A Novel
Elin Hilderbrand, Christina Delaine
The Beach Club by Elin Hilderbrand, Christina Delaine takes about 6 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2000. 357 pages, about 98,175 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In The Beach Club, the juicy first novel by talented newcomer Elin Hilderbrand, a series of personal dramas are played out during one summer at a Nantucket Beach Club. It's about the love of summer, summer love, and the special feelings we all have for that special summer place--in this case, a hotel and an island. Mack Petersen, manager of the hotel, has been working at The Beach Club for 12 summers. Only this summer is different. His boss, the owner of the hotel, Bill Elliot, shows up in the spring with a new set of demands. His girlfriend Maribel is pressing Mack to get married and Vance, the African-American bellman, who has hated Mack since the day Mack stole his job 12 years ago, threatens him in a deadly scene. Mack knows something's got to give. Love O'Donnell, the new front desk person straight from the slopes of Aspen, is desperately searching for a stranger to father her child. The bellman, Jem Crandall, who posed as Mr. November in his college calendar, is on his way to LA to break into agenting, until he falls in love with Maribel. Emotions are at a peak when a hurricane threatens to wash away The Beach Club and all it stands for. An engrossing, sexy novel that will sweep you away to the beach any time of the year.
Subjects: Summer resorts, Fiction, Hurricanes, Love stories, Fiction, general, Massachusetts, fiction
