How long does it take to read The Night Gardener?
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier takes about 7 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours
A weekend read
First published 2014. 382 pages, about 105,050 words. Written for children.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Subjects: Ghost stories, Brothers and sisters, Storytelling, Blessing and cursing, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings, Orphans
