How long does it take to read The Girl Next Door?
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum takes about 6 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 362 pages, about 99,550 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Set in the suburban United States of the 1950s, this horror novel is narrated in flashback by David, who looks back on events from his youth. Ruth, an alcoholic single mother of three sons, wins the trust of the neighborhood children by letting them roam her home, play roughly, and even share an occasional beer with her. When the sudden death of their parents sends two nieces to live with her, teenage Meg, on whom David develops feelings, and the young, injured Susan, Ruth's fragile mental state worsens, and the girls become targets of systematic, escalating abuse.
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Subjects: Sisters, Fiction, Fiction, horror, Fiction, psychological
