How long does it take to read The Nutmeg Tree?
The Nutmeg Tree by Margery Sharp takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1937. 288 pages, about 79,200 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Nutmeg Tree was first published in 1937. It is probably the first of Margery Sharp’s novels that made her work a commercial success. It is a marvelous piece of storytelling that also happens to be extremely funny. The lead character, Julia Packett, is not a typical heroine, by any means...A charming ne’er do well with a talent for song and dance, a passion for burlesque theatre, and a sincere but ephemeral attachment to any male with a come-hither look, she has the ill fortune to get pregnant, hastily married, then widowed in a brief space of time during the hectic days of World War I. She tried being a mom for awhile, but then left her baby daughter with the (very deserving) grandparents and went back to her life in theater. But there's something about Julia...she won the hearts of readers then, and now. The real story opens twenty years later, when she finds her daughter Susan needs her to help sort out a messy romantic entanglement. Every last bit of maternal instinct is then mustered, and Julia Packett goes rushing off--somewhat theatrically, but sincere, nonetheless--to help her daughter. What ensues, both in the romantic angle and the soul-searching angle, is a delight.
Subjects: Julia Packett, Fiction, general, Mothers and daughters, Fiction, Romance fiction
