It takes the average reader 6 hours and 50 minutes to read Don't Mention Her by Jane Kirwan
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Claire, five-year-old daughter of Irish doctors, Connie and Liam, dies suddenly in 1963. The novel follows the devastation in the family - consequences that reverberate over the next fifty years. There's the shock as Connie deserts Liam and their children and the mystery of the pact she makes with Anne, a Catholic nun. All who witnessed the child's death, even the youngest, feel responsible and have their own stories as they leave home, reject religion, start careers. Connie's ambivalence about mothering seems to follow the next generation of women. One cousin, most deeply affected, tries to escape the past as she takes up work in Nigeria. Do her choices repeat Connie's actions? And to whom does it fall to fulfil the pact Connie made fifty years before? A heartbreaking story of motherhood and the limitations of love.
Don't Mention Her by Jane Kirwan is 404 pages long, and a total of 102,616 words.
This makes it 136% the length of the average book. It also has 125% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 20 minutes to read Don't Mention Her aloud.
Don't Mention Her is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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