It takes the average reader 4 hours and 50 minutes to read Wild Writing Granny by Mary Sheepshanks
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Wild Writing Granny is a book full of delight. It is shot through with love, anguish, light, darkness and fun. If you enjoy reading about English schoolmasters, matrons and schoolboys, you'll adore it. Mary Sheepshanks is a skilled and wise writer. Her thumbnail sketches are so controlled, so accurate, so honest and concise, that within three lines of being introduced to the 130th character you have laughed and almost cried. She was born Mary Nickson, the daughter of an Eton junior master who later became a housemaster, and the first chapters of the book describe Eton as seen through the eyes of a little girl living in Baldwin's End Cottage, with a view of horses grazing on Fellows' Eyot out of one window, and of Windsor Castle out of another. Her father was much loved, a man who 'created virtue by imputing it'. He drew cartoons on the boys' fortnightly order cards and flipped them frisbee-like across the classroom, accurately aiming for each boy in turn
Wild Writing Granny by Mary Sheepshanks is 285 pages long, and a total of 72,675 words.
This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 37 minutes to read Wild Writing Granny aloud.
Wild Writing Granny is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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