How long does it take to read The New Broom?
The New Broom by Joyce Dingwell takes about 3 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1974. 187 pages, about 51,425 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sophie is the daughter of the Acting Headmaster at Apa School for Girls and looking forward to his promotion to Headmaster. Her step-mother had been the Headmistress of the school and to Sophie, who had grown up there, it was the logical step when she died, for her father to step in. The arrival of Garrick Saxby to take the job threw Sophie and her view of the perceived injustice coloured her first reactions when meeting him. To add insult to injury, Apa school was to become co-educational with a boys school joining them on the lush rural site.
