How long does it take to read The True Deceiver?
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson takes about 3 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 25 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1982. 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 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Set in a Swedish hamlet in the winter snows. A young woman inveigles herself into the life of an elderly children's illustrator who lives alone in the woods. But why is she doing this? And who ultimately is deceiving whom? By the time the snow thaws both their lives have changed irrevocably.
Subjects: Deception, Winter, Recluses, Fiction, Interpersonal relations, Country life
