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Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn

Never Mind: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Patrick Melrose Novels series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Never Mind audiobook runs 4.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Alex Jennings (about 2.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

4.3listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2013released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 4.3 hours of listening.

Days to finish Never Mind at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day9 days
1 hour / day5 days
2 hours / day3 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×3 days

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

What our data says

  • At 4.3 hours, it is shorter than 88% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Patrick Melrose Novels

This is book 1. Books 1 to 5 run 33.3 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Never Mind4.3 hrs
2Bad News5.2 hrs
3Some Hope4.3 hrs
4Mother's Milk7.5 hrs
5At At Last12 hrs

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

498 Literary Fiction 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

Never Mind is book 1 of Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose Novels series: a 4.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Alex Jennings, released August 1, 2013, on the Literary Fiction and Essays & Anthologies shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
4.3 hrs
Narrated by
Alex Jennings
Released
August 1, 2013
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Literary Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Comedy, Satire & Parody
Series
The Patrick Melrose Novels #1
ISBN
9780230772649

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Never Mind audiobook?

Never Mind runs 4.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.9 hours.

Is the Never Mind audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Never Mind?

Never Mind is narrated by Alex Jennings.