It takes the average reader 3 hours and 39 minutes to read The Evacuee by Kate Bolton
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
It is 1940 and the second wave of evacuating children from the cities takes place. Five year old Jack, coming from a huge London council estate, is unprepared for his lonely immersion into the countryside of the Isle of Wight.While her husband is hospitalised for tuberculosis, Helen Day also has to adapt to rural life, exchanging court shoes and frocks for gumboots and overalls.Against a backdrop of wartime austerity, air raids and espionage, the brusque and unsociable Elsie Dyer finds her life turned upside down.Three lives converging in this story of wartime relationships.
The Evacuee by Kate Bolton is 215 pages long, and a total of 54,825 words.
This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 67% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 59 minutes to read The Evacuee aloud.
The Evacuee is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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