How Long to Read Davey Darling

How Long Does it Take to Read Davey Darling?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read Davey Darling by Paul Shannon

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This superb coming-of-age novel contains echoes of Ian Cross's The God Boy. Both novels look at the world and family relationships through the eyes of a young boy on the brink of adolescence. Davey Ardsley is twelve years old, growing up in a working-class suburb of Christchurch in the early 1970s (Norman Kirk has just died) with a big, violent, hard-case father and a long-suffering mother. The fridge is always full of beer; his mother is always lighting another fag to have with her cup of tea. Davey is a bit of a hard-case himself, giving his father and Terry Appleby, the local thug, plenty...

How long is Davey Darling?

Davey Darling by Paul Shannon is 264 pages long, and a total of 67,056 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Davey Darling Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read Davey Darling aloud.

What Reading Level is Davey Darling?

Davey Darling 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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