An Absence So Great: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Portraits of the Heart series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, An Absence So Great runs 14 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Susan Denaker (about 9.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 14 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 28 days |
| 1 hour / day | 14 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 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 hours, it runs longer than 82% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Portraits of the Heart
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 14 hours before it; books 1 to 2 run 28 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Flickering Light | 14 hrs |
| 2 | An Absence So Great | 14 hrs |
More narrated by Susan Denaker
Susan Denaker narrates 74 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 827 hours in all.
- The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Long Time Coming
- The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf
1,975 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Before We Were Yours
- The Women
- The Four Winds
- The Giver of Stars: Reese's Book Club
- The Alice Network
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
An Absence So Great is book 2 of Jane Kirkpatrick's Portraits of the Heart series: a 14-hour unabridged recording, read by Susan Denaker, released March 16, 2010, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 14 hrs
- Narrated by
- Susan Denaker
- Released
- March 16, 2010
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction)
- Series
- Portraits of the Heart #2
- ISBN
- 9780307735553
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is An Absence So Great as an audiobook?
An Absence So Great runs 14 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.3 hours.
Is An Absence So Great free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates An Absence So Great?
An Absence So Great is narrated by Susan Denaker.
Is An Absence So Great worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.3 hours, saving 4.7 hours.