How Long to Read Tightrope

How Long Does it Take to Read Tightrope?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 39 minutes to read Tightrope by Simon Mawer

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

From the author of the best-selling and Booker Prize–shortlisted The Glass Room and Trapeze An historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalties As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England she barely knows and a postwar world she doesn’t understand, Marian searches for something on which to ground the rest of her life. Family and friends surround her, but she is haunted by her experiences and by the guilt of knowing that her contribution to the war effort helped lead to the monstrosities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When the mysterious Major Fawley, the man who hijacked her wartime mission to Paris, emerges from the shadows to draw her into the ambiguities and uncertainties of the Cold War, she sees a way to make amends for the past and at the same time to find the identity that has never been hers. A novel of divided loyalties and mixed motives, Tightrope is the complex and enigmatic story of a woman whose search for personal identity and fulfillment leads her to shocking choices.

How long is Tightrope?

Tightrope by Simon Mawer is 513 pages long, and a total of 129,789 words.

This makes it 173% the length of the average book. It also has 159% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Tightrope Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 49 minutes to read Tightrope aloud.

What Reading Level is Tightrope?

Tightrope 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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