The estimated word count of Dark Tides is 144,150 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 9 hrs 37 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 16 hrs 1 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 5 hrs 21 mins.
Dark Tides - 144,150 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 16 hrs 1 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 9 hrs 37 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 5 hrs 21 mins |
for Dark Tides
#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory’s new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and New England. Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy—his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and has come to tell Alinor that her son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon. Alinor writes to her brother Ned, newly arrived in faraway New England and trying to make a life between the worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move toward inevitable war. Alinor tells him that she knows—without doubt—that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter. Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London, in the golden streets of Venice, and on the tensely contested frontier of early America, this is a novel of greed and desire: for love, for wealth, for a child, and for home