It takes the average reader 3 hours and 3 minutes to read Embroidered Memories by Sabine M Pereira-Kägi
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Klara, born in October 1918, is brought up in Eastern Switzerland in the small town of St. Gallen. Her family areembroiderers. Times are tough as the most prestigious era of this traditional industry is passé.Thanks to the generosity of her elder half-brother George, who is a pharmacist, Klara has the opportunity to undertake professional training as a kindergarten teacher. After graduating a dream comes true when Klara starts working for an aristocratic family as a nanny in Paris in April 1939.Claire, that's how she is called in France, enjoys the chicParisian lifestyle. The pretty life comes to an abrupt end, when the German Wehrmacht marches towards Paris in June1940 and the Count is heavily injured in the battle field. War has caught up with Claire.As the first bombs drop on the French capital she flees Paris together with the Countess and the children. Her family in Switzerland is worried for her well-being and urges her repeatedly to return home. Claire who got very attached toher host family, is unable to leave Madame with the four small children.Nevertheless, the situation deteriorates and gets tenuous even in the factual free Vichy France.
Embroidered Memories by Sabine M Pereira-Kägi is 182 pages long, and a total of 45,864 words.
This makes it 61% the length of the average book. It also has 56% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 10 minutes to read Embroidered Memories aloud.
Embroidered Memories is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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