How long does it take to read The Gentle Prisoner?
The Gentle Prisoner by Sara Seale takes about 3 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1980. 190 pages, about 52,250 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 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
(From Back Cover) Here is the tender story of Nicholis Penryn, who lived as an embittered recluse in a remote part of Cornwall. Badly scared, he could not believe that any woman could be other than repulsed by him- until his strange marriage to a young girl whose gentle ways at last touched even his unhappy heart.
