The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain
Published 1998 · 359 pages · 89,750 words · about 10 hours at an average pace · Coming-of-Age, Literary Fiction
How hard is The Way I Found Her to read?
The Way I Found Her scores 56 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
- Educated vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Tremain prose.
- Abstraction: 60 out of 100
- Obsession, childhood.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Paris setting.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- First person boy.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Finding, desire.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Child perspective.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- Mystery resolved.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- Linear narrative.
How The Way I Found Her is regarded
The Way I Found Her holds a literary regard score of 58 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.