It takes the average reader 8 hours and 10 minutes to read The Benediction by Joyce McDonald
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Betrayed by their homeland, the English, and the Catholic Church, the O’Dwyer family of four brothers and a sister is torn apart and forced to flee early-nineteenth-century Ireland one by one. Their search for one another and their struggle to restore the family while spread over three countries challenge them to retain their faith and belief in the future. All four brothers are in love with lovely Marie Foley, and their feelings for her tear them further apart. Even Declan, the youngest, who has the “gift of sight,” never envisioned that within a year, cattle would be grazing where their...
The Benediction by Joyce McDonald is 477 pages long, and a total of 122,589 words.
This makes it 161% the length of the average book. It also has 150% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 9 minutes to read The Benediction aloud.
The Benediction 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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