How long does it take to read The Summer Wife?
The Summer Wife by Flora Kidd takes about 3 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 25 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1976. 186 pages, about 51,150 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 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Deirdre married Rory Mallon because he had temporarily lost his sight, and only a wife could help him finish the work he was doing. Soon she fell in love with him. But Deirdre was plain, while all the other women in his life had been beautiful. What would happen when he recovered his sight?
Subjects: Teachers, Fiction, Blind, Photographers
