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Mad Mabel

Sally Hepworth

At your speed7 hrs

Pages352

Audiobook11½ hrs

352 pages works out to roughly 106,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 7 hrs — a weekend's reading.

Only 44 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way.

How long does it take to read Mad Mabel?

Mad Mabel is 352 pages, or roughly 106,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for Mad Mabel at three reading speeds.
Your paceWords per minuteTime to finish
Slow17510 hrs
Average2507 hrs
Fast4004½ 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 Mad Mabel?
About 7 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. Mad Mabel runs 352 pages, roughly 106,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 10 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 4½ hrs.
How many pages is Mad Mabel?
352 pages, which is about 106,000 words and 7 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we take the figure two of our three sources agree on.
Is Mad Mabel worth reading?
Only 44 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 352 pages and about 7 hrs of your time, or 4½ hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.
How long is the Mad Mabel audiobook?
About 11½ hrs, estimated from the 106,000 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

Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one years old. She's lived on her idyllic street, Kenny Lane, for sixty years--longer than anyone else. Aside from being a curmudgeon who minds everyone else's business, few would suspect that Elsie has a past that she has worked exceedingly hard at concealing.

Because when it comes to murder, no one ever suspects little girls or old ladies. And Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick, once a little girl and now an old lady, has a strange history of people in her life coming to a foul end. When a new little girl (talkative, curious, nosy) moves into the neighborhood and stops at nothing to befriend Elsie, her carefully-constructed life threatens to come crashing down as the secrets in Elsie's past start coming to light. Who was "Mad Mabel" fifty years ago? Who is Elsie Fitzpatrick today? And if the past has a habit of repeating itself, who has the most to lose? Told with Sally Hepworth's twists, humor, charm, and heart, MAD MABEL is novel that weaves past and present together--through the power of justice and redemption, and all the way to its stunning conclusion.