A Reluctant Bride: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Bride Ships series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Reluctant Bride runs 10.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Esther Wane (about 7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 10.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 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 10.5 hours, it runs longer than 69% of the 7,973 Religious Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Bride Ships
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 30.7 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Reluctant Bride | 10.5 hrs |
| 2 | The Runaway Bride | 10.1 hrs |
| 3 | A Bride of Convenience | 10.2 hrs |
More narrated by Esther Wane
Esther Wane narrates 363 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,444 hours in all.
About as long, on the Religious Fiction shelf
2,014 Religious Fiction 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 Reluctant Bride is book 1 of Jody Hedlund's Bride Ships series: a 10.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Esther Wane, released June 4, 2019, on the Religious Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Esther Wane
- Released
- June 4, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Religious Fiction
- Series
- Bride Ships #1
- ISBN
- 9781977341587
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Reluctant Bride as an audiobook?
A Reluctant Bride runs 10.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7 hours.
Is A Reluctant Bride free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates A Reluctant Bride?
A Reluctant Bride is narrated by Esther Wane.
Is A Reluctant Bride worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7 hours, saving 3.5 hours.