How long does it take to read The House?
The House by Danielle Steel takes about 7 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2005. 385 pages, about 105,875 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for DanielleSteel's sixty-sixth bestselling novel.A young woman's dream, an old man's gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door. . .The house on the hill outside San Francisco was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. When Sarah, a perfectly sensible lawyer, walks through its empty rooms, she is drawn to the once-grand mansion in a way she cannot explain.– to a drama that first unfolded in war-torn France, and to a history she never knew she had.Using an unexpected legacy, Sarah takes on the dilapidated house and its mysteries. With the help of architect Jeff Parker Sarah brings the exquisite house back to life, and as one relationship shatters and another begins, she discovers a whole new future.A novel of daring and hope, of embracing life and taking chances ...
Subjects: Mansions, Women lawyers, Architects, Fiction, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Fiction, general
