How long does it take to read The Virgin in the Ice?
The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters takes about 4 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 6 of The Cadfael Chronicles
Previous: The Leper of Saint Giles Next: The Sanctuary Sparrow
About 4 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1982. 236 pages, about 64,900 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 45 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Cadfael attends to a brother beaten and left for dead, and searches for missing siblings and their nun escort. In the meantime, a band of marauders pillages the countryside.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Brother Cadfael, mystery & detection, Great Britain, civil war
