It takes the average reader 4 hours and 52 minutes to read A Bough in Hell by Dymphna Cusack
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A compassionate and perceptive story of a woman's effort to escape from the nightmare of alcohol addiction. Uncertain of herself, vulnerable, Roslyn is a woman who needs people - and who needs to feel that people need her. But her husband Rod, an officer in the Australian Navy, is often away at sea, and her daughter, grown up and preoccupied with her studies and her boyfriend, comes only rarely to see her. Imagining slights where perhaps none exist, and feeling herself cold-shouldered by the other naval wives and shunned by the tenants in her Sydney block of flats, Roslyn starts drinking to console herself on her lonely evenings at home, unaware that what is at first only a harmless temporary escape from barren reality will grow into a need, and then into an overpowering obsession...
A Bough in Hell by Dymphna Cusack is 286 pages long, and a total of 73,216 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 40 minutes to read A Bough in Hell aloud.
A Bough in Hell is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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