How long does it take to read Under the Hawthorn Tree?
children of the famine
Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna takes about 2 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 48 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1990. 153 pages, about 42,075 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
During the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, three children are left alone and in danger of being sent to the workhouse, so they set out to find the great-aunts they remember from their mother's stories.
Subjects: Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Famines, History, Ireland, fiction
