Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Boy in the Field: A Novel is 6th and 7th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 4 |
SMOG Index | Grade 7 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 7 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
The estimated word count of The Boy in the Field: A Novel is 72,695 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 4 hrs 51 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 8 hrs 5 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 42 mins.
The Boy in the Field: A Novel - 72,695 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 8 hrs 5 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 4 hrs 51 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 2 hrs 42 mins |
for The Boy in the Field: A Novel
A People Book of the Week | An O Magazine Best Book of the Fall| A USA Today Book Not to MissThe New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy delivers another “luminous, unforgettable, and perfectly rendered” (Dennis Lehane) novel—a poignant and probing psychological drama that follows the lives of three siblings in the wake of a violent crime.One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy’s life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim’s brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, looks back. Duncan, the youngest, who has seldom thought about being adopted, suddenly decides he wants to find his birth mother. Overshadowing all three is the awareness that something is amiss in their parents’ marriage. Over the course of the autumn, as each of the siblings confronts the complications and contradictions of their approaching adulthood, they find themselves at once drawn together and driven apart.Written with the deceptive simplicity and power of a fable, The Boy in the Field showcases Margot Livesey’s unmatched ability to “tell her tale masterfully, with intelligence, tenderness, and a shrewd understanding of all our mercurial human impulses” (Lily King, author of Euphoria).