How long does it take to read The Unbearable Lightness of Scones?
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander McCall Smith takes about 6 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of 44 Scotland Street
Previous: The World According to Bertie Next: The Importance of Being Seven
About 6 hours 18 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2008. 344 pages, about 94,600 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 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The witty and utterly delightful new novel in the national bestselling 44 Scotland Street series.Featuring all the quirky characters we have come to know and love, The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, finds Bertie, the precocious six-year-old, still troubled by his rather overbearing mother, Irene, but seeking his escape in the Cub Scouts. Matthew is rising to the challenge of married life with newfound strength and resolve, while Domenica epitomizes the loneliness of the long-distance intellectual. Cyril, the gold-toothed star of the whole show, succumbs to the kind of romantic temptation that no dog can resist and creates a small problem, or rather six of them, for his friend and owner Angus Lordie. With his customary deftness, Alexander McCall Smith once again brings us an absorbing and entertaining tale of some of Scotland's most quirky and beloved characters--all set in the beautiful, stoic city of Edinburgh.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Fiction, Edinburgh (Scotland), Apartment houses, Fiction, family life, general, Edinburgh (scotland), fiction
