How long does it take to read The Guarded Heart?
The Guarded Heart by Robyn Donald takes about 3 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1983. 191 pages, about 52,525 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 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After a year abroad, Alannah was returning joyfully to her home in New Zealand - and to David; David whom she had loved for so long and whom she now hoped to marry. She would also, she realised, have to face the inscrutable Nicholas Challoner again; but perhaps by now he would have forgiven her for the tragedy she had unwittingly brought about - when she had accidentally caused the death of his wife. Nicholas, it soon appeared, had not forgiven her; but he had decided how she was going to make amends ...
Subjects: Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, general, Fiction, romance
