It takes the average reader 7 hours and 13 minutes to read Iris & Ruby by Rosie Thomas
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A richly textured story of love, loss and the distance between three generations of one family. The unexpected arrival of her wilful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn't seen for years. An unlikely bond develops between them, as Ruby helps Iris to record her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War Two, and of her one true love -- the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneaux --...
Iris & Ruby by Rosie Thomas is 425 pages long, and a total of 108,375 words.
This makes it 143% the length of the average book. It also has 132% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 52 minutes to read Iris & Ruby aloud.
Iris & Ruby is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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