How long does it take to read The Summer Queen?
The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick takes about 9 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 2013. 491 pages, about 135,025 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Young, golden-haired and blue-eyed Eleanor has everything to look forward to as the heiress to wealthy Aquitaine. But when her beloved father dies suddenly in the summer of 1137, her childhood is over. Forced to marry the young prince Louis of France, she barely adjusts before another death catapults them to being crowned King and Queen of France. Leaving everything behind, Eleanor must face the complex and vivacious French court. She is only 13. Barely out of childhood, and forced to deal with great scandals, fraught relationships and forbidden love at every turn, Eleanor finally sees what her future could hold if she could just seize the moment.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, biographical, France, fiction, Fiction, historical
