It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read The Taxi Driver's Daughter by Julia Darling
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
It is late December and fifteen - year - old Caris is trying to hang an angel on a Christmas tree in a terraced house in Newcastle - upon - Tyne. She is interrupted by the arrival of the police who have come to announce that her mother, Louise, has been caught stealing a shoe in a department store in town. Caris's father, Mac, a taxi driver, struggles to keep the family together as Christmas looks set for disaster, especially when Louise's drunken, dishevelled mother moves in. While Mac finds solace talking to his passengers, Caris is drawn into the intriguing darkness of the nearby vale where she meets George, an unpredictable boy form a very different sort of family. Their relationship leads her away form school and what she has know, into a new an unnerving world.
The Taxi Driver's Daughter by Julia Darling is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.
This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read The Taxi Driver's Daughter aloud.
The Taxi Driver's Daughter 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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