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Cruel to Be Kind: Saying no can save a child’s life by Cathy Glass

Cruel to Be Kind: Saying no can save a child’s life: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Cruel to Be Kind: Saying no can save a child’s life audiobook runs 8.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Denica Fairman (about 5.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.8listening hrs
Memoirsstore shelf
2017released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish Cruel to Be Kind: Saying no can save a child’s life at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day18 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 8.8 hours, it runs longer than 63% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.

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

Cruel to Be Kind: Saying no can save a child’s life is an audiobook by Cathy Glass: a 8.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Denica Fairman, released September 7, 2017, on the Memoirs and Relationships & Intimacy shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.8 hrs
Narrated by
Denica Fairman
Released
September 7, 2017
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Memoirs, Relationships & Intimacy, Social Science
ISBN
9780008252038

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Cruel to Be Kind: Saying no can save a child’s life audiobook?

Cruel to Be Kind: Saying no can save a child’s life runs 8.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.8 hours.

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Who narrates Cruel to Be Kind: Saying no can save a child’s life?

Cruel to Be Kind: Saying no can save a child’s life is narrated by Denica Fairman.