Charmed Life: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Chrestomanci series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Charmed Life audiobook runs 7.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Gerard Doyle (about 4.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 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 7.2 hours, it runs longer than 71% of the 7,923 Mystery & Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Chrestomanci
This is book 1. Books 1 to 6 run 50.9 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charmed Life | 7.2 hrs |
| 2 | The Magicians of Caprona | 7.9 hrs |
| 3 | Witch Week | 7.9 hrs |
| 4 | The Lives of Christopher Chant | 9.1 hrs |
| 5 | Conrad's Fate | 8.7 hrs |
| 6 | The Pinhoe Egg | 10 hrs |
More narrated by Gerard Doyle
Gerard Doyle narrates 168 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,669 hours in all.
- Eldest: Inheritance, Book II
- Inheritance
- Murtagh: The World of Eragon
- The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Volume 1, Eragon
- The Looking Glass Wars
About as long, on the Mystery & Fantasy shelf
1,173 Mystery & Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Warriors #1: Into the Wild
- The Graveyard Book
- The City of Ember: The First Book of Ember
- Woof: A Bowser and Birdie Novel
- The Hive Queen (Wings of Fire #12)
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
Charmed Life is book 1 of Diana Wynne Jones's Chrestomanci series: a 7.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Gerard Doyle, released February 4, 2008, on the Mystery & Fantasy shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Gerard Doyle
- Released
- February 4, 2008
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mystery & Fantasy
- Series
- Chrestomanci #1
- ISBN
- 9781440796999
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Charmed Life audiobook?
Charmed Life runs 7.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.8 hours.
Is the Charmed Life audiobook free?
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Who narrates Charmed Life?
Charmed Life is narrated by Gerard Doyle.