How long does it take to read The Watch House?
The Watch House by Robert Westall takes about 4 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 11 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1977. 228 pages, about 62,700 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
While spending the summer with her old nurse on the north English coast, a teen-age girl discovers that her presence in the nearby Watch House, a museum containing relics of shipwrecks and rescues, releases a powerful and evil ghost.
Subjects: Ghosts, Fiction, Ghost stories, Children's fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Adventure and adventurers, fiction
