How long does it take to read The Tide of Life?
a novel
The Tide of Life by Catherine Cookson takes about 9 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 47 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1976. 534 pages, about 146,850 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction, Working class, Women domestics, Women household employees, Family, Fiction, family life, general
