How long does it take to read The Turn of the Key?
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware takes about 6 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2019. 352 pages, about 96,800 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Rowan Caine, a London nanny held in prison before her trial on a murder charge, sets down her story in letters addressed to a lawyer she wants to represent her. She recounts answering an advertisement for a live-in post at Heatherbrae, an isolated Victorian house near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, fitted with cameras and advanced smart technology. Its owners, the architects Sandra and Bill Elincourt, have four daughters, and earlier nannies have quit over talk of a haunting. Soon after Rowan settles in, strange and unsettling incidents begin to occur at night.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Fiction, thrillers, general, Scotland, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general, Murder
