How long does it take to read The Raven in the Foregate?
The Raven in the Foregate by Ellis Peters takes about 4 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 12 of The Cadfael Chronicles
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About 4 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 238 pages, about 65,450 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Christmas, 1141 AD. Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the Foregate), a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but neither humility nor the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond, suspicion is cast in many directions, not least towards a young man who came in the priest's train, sent to work in Brother Cadfael's garden. For he has little obvious priestly calling. Indeed, he soon attracts the friendship of a girl both beautiful and formidable. To Brother Cadfael, once worldly, now dedicated, if gently cynical, is left the familiar task of sorting the complicated strands which define guilt and innocence.
Subjects: Fiction, Herbalists, Monks, Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character), History, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
