How long does it take to read The Marrying Kind?
The Marrying Kind by Elizabeth Cadell takes about 4 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1980. 227 pages, about 62,425 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Vintage Cadell! With her unsurpassed ability to weave together romance, suspense and a cast of unforgettable characters. Elizabeth Cadell has, in this her newest novel gently spun her most heartwarming story to date. The book opens with a most uncomfortable reunion of two sisters – each in their late twenties and happily unmarried, each leading very independent but totally opposite lives. Jess Seton, a woman of impulse and impatient nature, besieged by men in fashionable London: Laura Seton, easygoing and charmingly old-fashioned, enjoying the leisurely pace and pastoral delight of the rural country town she has chosen as home. Together, Jess and Laura are compelled to meet a new and unexpected challenge, protecting the reputation of their widowed father the exasperating and endearing Claude Seton, a free spirit who has suddenly gotten himself into trouble in the art world. As he veers from ‘the straight and narrow’ his daughters find themselves on new paths – leading each one to the startling revelation that she is, indeed, the marrying kind.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, romance, historical