A time to love vs Nine Coaches Waiting: Which Should You Read?

Cover of A time to love A time to love Al Lacy · 1998 ★★★★☆ 3.9 500 pages · ≈ 9 h 16 m · Moderate
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At the altar Linda Forrest discovers her fiancee has eloped -- with her own sister! Starting a new life as a mail order bride she finds her husband has a sinister secret, but that no danger can place her beyond God's…

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Cover of Nine Coaches Waiting Nine Coaches Waiting Mary Stewart · 1958 ★★★★☆ 4.1 329 pages · ≈ 6 h 06 m · Moderate
“I was thankful that nobody was there to meet me at the airport.”
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Linda Martin, an English woman is hired to be a governess for a young French boy. But a strange terror coiled in the shadows behind the brooding elegance of the huge Château Valmy. It lay there like some dark and…

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The verdict

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How to choose

Scores by source

A time to loveNine Coaches Waiting
Goodreads — 4.1 (17424)
Hardcover — 3.7 (26)
Apple Books — 4.5 (140)
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Reception

A time to loveNine Coaches Waiting
Ratings 3 17424
Editions 4 23
Film adaptations — 1
Wikipedia attention — 427
Pages 500 329
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Questions readers ask

Which is rated higher: A time to love or Nine Coaches Waiting?

Nine Coaches Waiting has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Nine Coaches Waiting 4.1/5, A time to love 3.9/5).

Which is shorter to read: A time to love or Nine Coaches Waiting?

Nine Coaches Waiting is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: Nine Coaches Waiting (329 pages, ≈ 6 h 06 m); A time to love (500 pages, ≈ 9 h 16 m).

Which is harder to read: A time to love or Nine Coaches Waiting?

Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — A time to love: Moderate; Nine Coaches Waiting: Moderate.

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