A Marvellous Light: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Last Binding series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Marvellous Light runs 14.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by David Thorpe (about 9.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 29 days |
| 1 hour / day | 15 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 10 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 14.5 hours, it runs longer than 75% of the 2,729 Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Last Binding
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 44.4 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Marvellous Light | 14.5 hrs |
| 2 | A Restless Truth: a magical, Sapphic locked-room murder mystery | 13.7 hrs |
| 3 | A Power Unbound | 16.1 hrs |
More narrated by David Thorpe
David Thorpe narrates 356 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,606 hours in all.
About as long, on the Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy) shelf
432 Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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 Marvellous Light is book 1 of Freya Marske's Last Binding series: a 14.5-hour unabridged recording, read by David Thorpe, released November 2, 2021, on the LGBTQ+ (Fiction) and Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- David Thorpe
- Released
- November 2, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- LGBTQ+ (Fiction), Historical (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
- Series
- The Last Binding #1
- ISBN
- 9781250824851
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Marvellous Light as an audiobook?
A Marvellous Light runs 14.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.7 hours.
Is A Marvellous Light free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Marvellous Light?
A Marvellous Light is narrated by David Thorpe.
Is A Marvellous Light worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.7 hours, saving 4.8 hours.