How long does it take to read The Birth House?
Ami Mckay
The Birth House by Ami Mckay takes about 7 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2006. 387 pages, about 106,425 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 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An arresting portrait of the struggles that women faced for control of their own bodies, The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare—the first daughter in five generations of Rares.As apprentice to the outspoken Acadian midwife Miss Babineau, Dora learns to assist the women of an isolated Nova Scotian village through infertility, difficult labors, breech births, unwanted pregnancies, and unfulfilling sex lives. During the turbulent World War I era, uncertainty and upheaval accompany the arrival of a brash new medical doctor and his promises of progress and fast, painless childbirth. In a clash between tradition and science, Dora finds herself fighting to protect the rights of women as well as the wisdom that has been put into her care.
Subjects: Drama, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Midwives, Midwifery, Childbirth
