How long does it take to read The Strength of Desire?
The Strength of Desire by Alison Fraser takes about 5 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 285 pages, about 78,375 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The truth will out! The first time: Hope had always been strongly attracted to Guy, but she did the right thing and turned her back on him ...until that fateful weekend, when their desire boiled over. In-between times: Hope tried to put her short-lived, misguided affair with Guy behind her, and be a good mother to her daughter, Maxine. This time: The death of Hope's ex-husband. Jack, has brought Guy, his younger brother, back into her life. Hope is left with two legacies: one is the startling contents of Jack's will, the other is the need to confess the truth--that Maxine is not Guy's niece, but his daughter ....