It takes the average reader 9 hours and 16 minutes to read She's Leaving Home by Edwina Currie
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Helen Majinsky is sixteen, Jewish and confused. She is also in love - like every Merseyside schoolgirl - with four mop-topped young men, seduced by the Cavern Club and the exciting sound of 1963. In the year The Beatles have the world at their feet, Helen dreams secretly of reaching university and leaving Liverpool. Her Liverpool. Her world. For a grammar school girl to even consider a future outside the city is to break taboos stronger than the Mersey undertow, and as the prospect of a place at Oxbridge shimmers into view, Helen knows she is restrained by the very forces of stability she longs to escape. But when love intervenes - with Michael Levison, a locally stationed US serviceman - Helen finds the means to break the chains of the old life, and her guide through the hidden dangers of the new...
She's Leaving Home by Edwina Currie is 552 pages long, and a total of 139,104 words.
This makes it 186% the length of the average book. It also has 170% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 40 minutes to read She's Leaving Home aloud.
She's Leaving Home 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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