How long does it take to read The Shifting Sands?
The Shifting Sands by Kay Thorpe takes about 2 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 49 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1975. 154 pages, about 42,350 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Ruth was in Algiers, alone in the world and very young, when she met Andre Dubois. His answer to the problem was to marry her out of hand, with the assurance that their marriage would remain a brother-and-sister arrangement for the time being. That was all very well, but where did the glamorous Simone Chantal fit into the picture?
