It takes the average reader 4 hours and 24 minutes to read What She Had to Do by Mary-Rose Hayes
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A desperate choice, made by young Imogene Sayle during the rigors of postwar England, triggers shockwaves through three generations of a family. Fifty years later, Imogene's daughter Penelope, married and living in California, learns of her mother's terminal illness. Despite a toxic childhood, Penelope is driven by an abiding love for her beautiful, imperious, destructive mother, and returns to England to care for her. The story, told from Penelope's point of view, is set in San Francisco and an English cathedral city, and covers the last three months of Imogene's life. While coping with the day-to-day challenges of her mother's decline, Penelope must also confront self-doubts regarding her own marriage and career, her relationship with her college-aged daughter Caitlin, and the unsettling reappearance of an old love. At the same time, Penelope attempts to discover what went so wrong in her mother's life before it's too late, and why, most importantly, she seemed to blame Penelope for all of it.
What She Had to Do by Mary-Rose Hayes is 262 pages long, and a total of 66,024 words.
This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours to read What She Had to Do aloud.
What She Had to Do is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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