How long does it take to read The Distant Hours?
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton takes about 9 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 44 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 531 pages, about 146,025 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It started with a letter. A letter that had been lost for a long time, waiting out half a century, stifling summer after cooling winter, in a forgotten postal bag in the dim attic of a nondescript house in Bermondsey. Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Millderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret.
Subjects: Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Evacuation of civilians, Family secrets, Fiction, family life, general, Mothers and daughters, fiction
