It takes the average reader 4 hours and 44 minutes to read A Better Place by Barbara Hall
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Resentments emerge when a woman returns to her Virginia hometown after a failed quest for stardom, in “a fine novel of manners about life in the South” (Library Journal). In an attempt to discover why her life hasn’t worked out the way she had hoped it would, Valerie Caldwell returns to the Southern town she left twelve years earlier to visit her old haunts and two friends from her school days, Tess and Mary Grace—much to their alarm and chagrin.
A Better Place by Barbara Hall is 282 pages long, and a total of 71,064 words.
This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 87% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 28 minutes to read A Better Place aloud.
A Better Place is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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