How long does it take to read The Forbidden Valley?
The Forbidden Valley by Essie Summers takes about 3 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1973. 189 pages, about 51,975 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 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Charlotte was worried to death about her cousin Phyl. She was already aware that Phyl had something on her mind and was going out to New Zealand to find out what it was all about. But by the time she arrived things had taken a new turn - Phyl had run away from home with another man, leaving her three children, and her husband Owen, setting off after her, had crashed his car and was seriously ill in hospital. A pretty kettle of fish! Charlotte just couldn’t believe that Phyl could behave in such a way - although meanwhile a forbidding brother-in-law, Edmund Leigh, had arrived on the scene and was clearly only too ready to believe the worst, and to tar this unknown English cousin with the same brush. So Charlotte set about solving the mystery, without letting Edmund realize who she was.
Subjects: romance
