How many pages is Land?

400 pages, which is about 120,000 words and 8 hrs of reading. Editions vary, and only Hardcover lists a page count for it, so treat it as approximate.

Is Land worth reading?

On early ratings, we score it 6.7 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth the time. Only 35 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far, so the score leans on the library average and will move as more ratings arrive; at about 8 hrs at an average pace it gives back 0.2 for its length.

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

6.7early score

At your speed≈ 8 hrs

Pages400

Audiobook≈ 13½ hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

400 pages works out to roughly 120,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 8 hrs — a weekend's reading.

35 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — enough for an early score, not yet a firm one.

Worth-it score 6.7/10 — Worth the time (early). Readers 6.9 (35 early ratings on Hardcover) − length 0.2 = 6.7. How the score works →

How long does it take to read Land?

Land is 400 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 — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 13½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

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 400 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?: 400 pages, which is about 120,000 words and 8 hrs of reading. Editions vary, and only Hardcover lists a page count for it, so treat it as approximate.
Is Land worth reading?: On early ratings, we score it 6.7 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth the time. Only 35 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far, so the score leans on the library average and will move as more ratings arrive; at about 8 hrs at an average pace it gives back 0.2 for its length.
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

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.