How long does it take to read Written In My Own Heart's Blood?
Written In My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon takes about 15 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 50 minutes
A long haul
First published 2008. 864 pages, about 237,600 words.
32 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 26 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears...into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven best-selling novels, and CNN has called it "a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries]." Now the story continues in Written in My Own Heart's Blood. It is 1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington's troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife; his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is; and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie's wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny, are busy picking up the pieces. The Frasers can only be thankful that their daughter Brianna and her family are safe in 20th-century Scotland. Or not. In fact, Brianna is searching for her own son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family's secrets. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the past in search of the missing boy--never suspecting that the object of his quest has not left the present. Now, with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna herself.
Subjects: Fiction, romance, historical, Philadelphia (pa.), fiction, Fiction, romance, time travel, Fiction, fantasy, historical, Fiction, Time travel
