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How long does it take to read Wish You Well?

David Baldacci

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

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