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How long does it take to read Unbirthday?

Liz Braswell

Unbirthday by Liz Braswell takes about 9 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 10 of A Twisted Tale

Previous: As Old As Time Next: What Once Was Mine

About 9 hours 23 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2020. 512 pages, about 140,800 words. Written for children.

19 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 15 hours 39 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 9 hours 23 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 52 minutes

The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late? Alice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. She’d rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian’s lively salon, ignoring her sister’s wishes that she stop all that “nonsense” and become a “respectable” member of society. Alice is happy to meander to Miss Yao’s teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. She’s also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there, but just because she’s curious, of course, not because he was sweet and charming. But when Alice develops photographs she has recently taken about town, familiar faces of old suddenly appear in the place of her actual subjects—the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar. There’s something eerily off about them, even for Wonderland creatures. And as Alice develops a self-portrait, she finds the most disturbing image of all—a badly-injured dark-haired girl asking for Alice’s help. Mary Ann. Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice finds herself on a mission to stop the Queen of Hearts’ tyrannical rule and to find her place in both worlds. But will she able to do so... before the End of Time?

Subjects: Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction

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