How long does it take to read The Hermit of Eyton Forest?
The Hermit of Eyton Forest by Ellis Peters takes about 4 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 14 of The Cadfael Chronicles
Previous: The Rose Rent Next: The Confession of Brother Haluin
About 4 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 242 pages, about 66,550 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 33 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This Cadfael mystery is more about mediaeval law and crime, and the first civil war in England, with the Empress Matilda and King Stephen as the belligerents, than about detection with the monk Cadfael''s skills. Nevertheless a craftily constructed story, and several strings to the plot, neatly disentangled at the end.
Subjects: Fiction, Herbalists, Monks, Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character), History, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
