How long does it take to read Trelawny?
Trelawny by Isabelle Holland takes about 4 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1974. 251 pages, about 69,025 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Twins were part of the Trelawny legend and tradition, along with a certain arrogance, considerable wealth, and a rambling New England mansion, Trelawny’s Fell, that was both their pride and their refuge. Kit Trelawny, a distant cousin, had suffered the family’s arrogance as a child. But when Nicholas and Giles Trelawny, the last twins and heirs, died in combat action in Southeast Asia, Kit inherited the great Maine house. In a spirit of revenge against the departed family that had once snubbed and humiliated her, Kit moved up from Boston with her few belongings and began turning the mansion’s huge collection of wings, rooms, cellars, and crannies into the beginnings of what one day might become a New England artists’ colony. But as days lengthened into weeks, Kit learned with growing unease that the great house was not to be that easily conquered. Rambling and vast, a bewildering maze of corridors, stairs, crawlspaces, and hidden attics, it seemed to possess a mind, a will, and some secrets of its own. Kit, the intruder, felt the palpable presence of something or someone other—the sense that the very dead might still be alive—near, elusive, and yet beyond her reach. And with that knowledge came an even more disturbing realization: by penetrating the secrets of Trelawny’s Fell she had placed herself in mortal danger.
