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A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker

A Well-Tempered Heart: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Art of Hearing Heartbeats series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Well-Tempered Heart runs 10.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Cassandra Campbell (about 7.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.7listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2014released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish A Well-Tempered Heart at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day22 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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What our data says

  • At 10.7 hours, it runs longer than 67% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Art of Hearing Heartbeats Series

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 9.5 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 30.3 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1The Art of Hearing Heartbeats9.5 hrs
2A Well-Tempered Heart10.7 hrs
3The Heart Remembers10.2 hrs

More narrated by Cassandra Campbell

Cassandra Campbell narrates 1,083 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 11,240 hours in all.

All Cassandra Campbell audiobooks, measured

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 Well-Tempered Heart is book 2 of Jan-Philipp Sendker's Art of Hearing Heartbeats series: a 10.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Cassandra Campbell, released January 21, 2014, on the Drama and Literary Fiction shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.7 hrs
Narrated by
Cassandra Campbell
Released
January 21, 2014
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Drama, Literary Fiction
Series
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats Series #2
ISBN
9781481595087

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Questions listeners ask

How long is A Well-Tempered Heart as an audiobook?

A Well-Tempered Heart runs 10.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.1 hours.

Is A Well-Tempered Heart free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates A Well-Tempered Heart?

A Well-Tempered Heart is narrated by Cassandra Campbell.

Is A Well-Tempered Heart worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.1 hours, saving 3.6 hours.