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Life Class by Pat Barker

Life Class: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Life Class series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Life Class audiobook runs 8.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Kieran Bew and Finlay Robertson and others (about 5.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.9listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2014released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.9 hours of listening.

Days to finish Life Class 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

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 8.9 hours, it is shorter than 52% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Life Class Trilogy

This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 28.7 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Life Class8.9 hrs
2Toby's Room10 hrs
3Noonday9.8 hrs

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

2,717 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2008 recording read by Russell Boulter runs 1.3 hours shorter (7.6 hours).

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

Life Class is book 1 of Pat Barker's Life Class series: a 8.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Kieran Bew, Finlay Robertson and Eve Webster and others, released July 31, 2014, on the Historical (Fiction) and Contemporary Women shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.9 hrs
Narrated by
Kieran Bew, Finlay Robertson, Eve Webster, Juliet Prague
Released
July 31, 2014
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction), Contemporary Women, Literary Fiction
Series
The Life Class Trilogy #1
ISBN
9780241971277

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Life Class audiobook?

Life Class runs 8.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.9 hours.

Is the Life Class audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Life Class?

Life Class is narrated by Kieran Bew, Finlay Robertson, Eve Webster and Juliet Prague.