How long does it take to read The Pleasure and the Pain?
The Pleasure and the Pain by Anne Mather takes about 3 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1971. 189 pages, about 51,975 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 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Five years ago Raphael Madralena had left Laura Fleming, renouncing everything they had had together – and theirs had been a passionate relationship – to return to Spain to marry the girl he had been bethrothed to since childhood. His involvement with Laura had indeed been passionate, yet fleeting, ruled by his head and not by his emotions. When the call of duty had come he had not hesitated to leave her without a backward glance…And now he was a widower and Laura was going to work for him in answer to an advertisement in The Times – although he did not know that it was Laura who was coming. Five years is a long time. Would those old fires be relit?
Subjects: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Second chance at love, fiction
