It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation. Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand, and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London. There, as a fat and much admired young war widow, she spent her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher ("of very good books") and her nights dispensing advice at her small South Kensington rooming-house. At work and at home Mrs. Hawkins soon uncovered evil: shady literary...
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.
This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read A Far Cry from Kensington aloud.
A Far Cry from Kensington is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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