How long does it take to read Very Private Man?
Very Private Man by Jane Donnelly takes about 3 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 184 pages, about 50,600 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Wealthy, beautiful, spoiled heroine has been living an enchanted life as the granddaughter of a Romanian Count, a war hero who immigrated to England after WWII and made a fortune as a financial wizard. Until hero, an investigative reporter with a personal grudge against the Count, infiltrates heroine’s life under a false identity, and digs up enough dirt to expose him in the press as a Bernie Madoff type conman. Heroine, who had fallen in lust with the hero under his assumed identity and had even adopted a stray dog with him, is crushed by the double whammy of having been used and dumped, as well as her entire life crumbling around her ears. Valiantly, she rallies, putting everything they have up for sale to satisfy creditors and making plans to turn their home into a boarding house.
