A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides runs 7.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Emma Thompson (about 4.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 7.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.4 hours, it is shorter than 59% of the 5,303 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
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Emma Thompson narrates 6 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 35 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Social Science shelf
856 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides is an audiobook by Gisèle Pelicot: a 7.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Emma Thompson, released February 17, 2026, on the Memoirs and Women shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Emma Thompson
- Released
- February 17, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, Women, Social Science
- ISBN
- 9798217290109
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides as an audiobook?
A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides runs 7.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.9 hours.
Is A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides?
A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides is narrated by Emma Thompson.