How long does it take to read The Marriage Bed?
The Marriage Bed by Catherine George takes about 3 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 192 pages, about 52,800 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
She'd felt sure his love was real. Harriet Neil couldn't believe her luck. First, the secretary was unexpectedly sent on an all-expense paid holiday to Portugal by her boss. Then, on her first day at the luxurious Hotel Miramar on the Algarve Coast, she encountered the man of her dreams, the charming and sophisticated Richard Livesey. It was all too good to be true. Until she learned that Richard as not whom he'd claimed to be. But it was too late, for by that time he'd taken her captive, in more ways than one
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Portugal, fiction