It takes the average reader 4 hours and 18 minutes to read The Mortician's Wife by Linda Cookson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Macie just about has it all: her own salon, a personal cosmetics line, and a decently hot boyfriend who mooches off her. But when she meets John-a ruggedly handsome mortician, of all people-at the funeral of a family friend, her life changes forever. As John and Macie's relationship blooms into marriage, the two must overcome their differences and the struggles life throws in their path. John persuades Macie to sell her salon and work at the mortuary with him and his socially impaired brother, Charlie, applying makeup to the corpses. Macie gets pregnant but miscarries immediately after John has rough sex with her. John becomes an emotional wreck after this, convinced the miscarriage was his fault, and when she gets pregnant again, he avoids all but the gentlest of sexual interactions. Meanwhile, at the mortuary, Macie's been noticing some irregularities with the bodies. Sometimes they appear disheveled or in a different position than the day before. Now seven months pregnant and feeling more disconcerted each day, Macie wonders what's really going on. Will trust and fidelity survive the bitterly cold reality of her morbid discovery?
The Mortician's Wife by Linda Cookson is 254 pages long, and a total of 64,516 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 52 minutes to read The Mortician's Wife aloud.
The Mortician's Wife 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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