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How long does it take to read The Little Stranger?

Sarah Waters, Jaime Zulaika Goicoechea

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, Jaime Zulaika Goicoechea takes about 9 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 9 hours 23 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2009. 512 pages, about 140,800 words.

19 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 15 hours 39 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 9 hours 23 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 52 minutes

The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Abundantly atmospheric and elegantly told, The Little Stranger is Sarah Waterss most thrilling and ambitious novel yet. After her award-winning trilogy of victorian novels, sarah waters turned to the 1940s and wrote the night watch, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime britain shortlisted for both the orange and the man booker, it went straight to number one in the bestseller chart in a dusty post-war summer in rural warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at hundreds hall home to the ayres family for over two centuries, the georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine but are the ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life little does dr faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his prepare yourself from this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us, now comes a chilling ghost story.

Subjects: Fiction, Physicians, Ghost stories, Haunted houses, Fiction, ghost, England, fiction

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