How long does it take to read The Rose Rent?
The Rose Rent by Ellis Peters takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 13 of The Cadfael Chronicles
Previous: The Raven in the Foregate Next: The Hermit of Eyton Forest
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 240 pages, about 66,000 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 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Abby has been giving one rose as rent for a wealthy widow's property. This year the rose is hacked to pieces, and the rent cannot be paid. Worse yet, a man has suffered the same fate as the rose. Brother Cadfael must weave a complex garland to figure this one out.
Subjects: Fiction, Herbalists, Monks, Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character), History, Monastic and religious life
