How long does it take to read The Rosewood Box?
The Rosewood Box by Mary Burchell takes about 3 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1970. 188 pages, about 51,700 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 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Lavinia and Derek Manton had had a happy though childless marriage for a number of years, and they were still comparatively young when, without any warning, Derek died. Without warning - and without preparation - as Lavinia discovered when after a few days she had pulled herself together and begun to go through her husband's belongings. For in a rosewood box she discovered a secret that Derek had known about for many years but had kept even from his wife; a secret that was to bring into her life young Sheila Martineau, Sheila's mother, and two men who were both interested in Sheila. And it was to change Lavinia's life and that of several other people as well.
Subjects: Fiction, romance
