How long does it take to read The Flame Tree?
The Flame Tree by Elizabeth Graham takes about 3 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 25 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1985. 186 pages, about 51,150 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Visiting her mother's old friend Isabel Castillo in Mexico, Laura was hoping to draw on local colour as the background for her new novel. She did better than that in fact from Isabel's lordly nephew Roman she found the model for her romantic hero. But romantic heroes are not always noted for the more desirable real-life qualities of niceness and kindness and nor was Roman. She would be very foolish Laura soon realized to fall in love with him. For no woman it was clear; not even a wife would hold Roman Castillo's interest for very long. Hero: Ramon Castillo Heroine: Isabel Castillo
