How long does it take to read The Forgotten Garden?
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton takes about 9 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 35 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 523 pages, about 143,825 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A woman on a quest to find out the truth about her family, a mysterious Victorian authoress, a book of dark fairytales and a long-hidden secret-The Forgotten Garden is another addictive and compulsively readable romance/mystery from Kate Morton, author of the international bestseller The Shifting Fog.A lost child.On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her-but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace.A terrible secret.On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell O'Connor learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family.A mysterious inheritance.On Nell's death, her grand-daughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold-secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is here that Cassandra will finally uncover the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost.A captivating and atmospheric story of secrets, family and memory from the international bestselling author Kate Morton.
Subjects: Mystery, Abandoned children, Grandmothers, Country homes, Inheritance and succession, English
