Breakwater: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Broken Tides series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Breakwater audiobook runs 7.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Emily Lawrence (about 5.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 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 7.6 hours, it is shorter than 57% of the 4,472 Tough Topics audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Broken Tides
This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 15.5 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breakwater | 7.6 hrs |
| 2 | Crosscurrent | 7.9 hrs |
More narrated by Emily Lawrence
Emily Lawrence narrates 254 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,403 hours in all.
About as long, on the Tough Topics shelf
890 Tough Topics 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
Breakwater is book 1 of Catherine Jones Payne's Broken Tides series: a 7.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Emily Lawrence, released January 29, 2019, on the Tough Topics shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Emily Lawrence
- Released
- January 29, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Tough Topics
- Series
- Broken Tides #1
- ISBN
- 9781977337269
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Breakwater audiobook?
Breakwater runs 7.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.1 hours.
Is the Breakwater audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Breakwater?
Breakwater is narrated by Emily Lawrence.