How long does it take to read The Embroidered Sunset?
The Embroidered Sunset by Joan Aiken takes about 4 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1970. 248 pages, about 68,200 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The two old ladies had lived there together for so long that even their friends found it difficult to tell them apart. One thing was certain, however: one of them was dead (murdered?) and the other had disappeared. To unravel the tangles for herself and her Under Wilbie, young Lucy Culpepper decided to find her old Aunt Fennel -- was she the one who vanished, or was she the one who died? -- and as if the floodgates of evil were suddenly opened, Lucy discovered that someone urgently wanted her dead....
Subjects: Fiction, Moors and heaths, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, thrillers, suspense
