How long does it take to read The Sanctuary Sparrow?
The Sanctuary Sparrow by Ellis Peters takes about 4 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 7 of The Cadfael Chronicles
Previous: The Virgin in the Ice Next: The Devil's Novice
About 4 hours 39 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1983. 254 pages, about 69,850 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 32 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An itinerant entertainer accused of theft and assault gets sanctuary in the abbey, giving Cadfael 40 days to figure out what happened.
Subjects: Fiction, Catholics, Herbalists, Monks, Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character), History
