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A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight by Katharine Holstein, Maria Toorpakai

A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight runs 12.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Neela Vaswani (about 8.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12.5listening hrs
Memoirsstore shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight at common listening paces
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1 hour / day13 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

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What our data says

  • At 12.5 hours, it runs longer than 92% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.

Other recordings

  • The 2016 recording read by Maria Toorpakai runs 0.1 hours shorter (12.4 hours).

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight is an audiobook by Katharine Holstein and Maria Toorpakai: a 12.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Neela Vaswani, released May 3, 2016, on the Memoirs and Women shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
12.5 hrs
Narrated by
Neela Vaswani
Released
May 3, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Memoirs, Women, Non-Fiction
ISBN
9781478908890

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Questions listeners ask

How long is A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight as an audiobook?

A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight runs 12.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.3 hours.

Is A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight?

A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight is narrated by Neela Vaswani.

Is A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.3 hours, saving 4.2 hours.