How many pages is Land?

401 pages, which is about 120,000 words and 8 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we take the figure two of our three sources agree on.

Is Land worth reading?

What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 401 pages and about 8 hrs of your time, or 5 hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.

How long is the Land audiobook?

About 13½ hrs, estimated from the 120,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

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Land

Name: Land
Author: Maggie O'Farrell

Maggie O'Farrell

8 hrsto read

At your speed≈ 8 hrs

Pages401

Audiobook≈ 13½ hrs

401 pages works out to roughly 120,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 8 hrs — about a week of evenings.

How long does it take to read Land?

Land is 401 pages, or roughly 120,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for Land at three reading speeds.
Your pace	Words per minute	Time to finish
Slow	175	11½ hrs
Average	250	8 hrs
Fast	400	5 hrs

Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — use the reading-speed control to set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts.

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Every reading time on the site updates to your pace. Page counts are an estimate, so treat the hours as a good guide, not a stopwatch.

Common questions

How long does it take to read Land?: About 8 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. Land runs 401 pages, roughly 120,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 11½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 5 hrs.
How many pages is Land?: 401 pages, which is about 120,000 words and 8 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we take the figure two of our three sources agree on.
Is Land worth reading?: What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 401 pages and about 8 hrs of your time, or 5 hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.
How long is the Land audiobook?: About 13½ hrs, estimated from the 120,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

From the publisher

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. “A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological.…

I finished Land moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, gorgeous presence of its mosses, waters, winds, and skies.” —Daniel Mason, author of North Woods On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and the lives of those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás, and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping and get them both home? Land is a novel about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonization and rebellion. It is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away. As spellbinding and varied as the landscape that inspired it, Land is, above all, a story of survival, for our times and for all time.

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