How long does it take to read Wish You Well?
Wish You Well by David Baldacci takes about 7 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2000. 401 pages, about 110,275 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 47 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forcesof greed and justice are about to clash over her newhome . . . and as their struggle is played out in a crowdedVirginia courtroom, it will determine the future of twochildren, an entire town, and the mountains they love.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Domestic fiction, Bildungsromans, Natural gas reserves, Girls, Land tenure