How long does it take to read The Chinese Garden?
Rosemary Manning
The Chinese Garden by Rosemary Manning takes about 3 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1962. 173 pages, about 47,575 words. Written for young adults.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At the Bampford School for Girls, conditions are Spartan, discipline is fierce, and love between students is the ultimate crime. Here, 16-year-old Rachel becomes trapped in a tangle of passions she does not fully understand, caught between a formidable headmistress and a passionate and defiant classmate.
Subjects: Fiction, Teenage girls, Lesbian teenagers, Boarding schools, Fiction, general, Great britain, fiction
