Noonday: Audiobook
Book 3 of the Life Class series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Noonday audiobook runs 9.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Stephen Boxer and John Sackville and others (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 9.8 hours, it runs longer than 58% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Life Class Trilogy
This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 18.9 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 28.7 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Life Class | 8.9 hrs |
| 2 | Toby's Room | 10 hrs |
| 3 | Noonday | 9.8 hrs |
More narrated by John Sackville
John Sackville narrates 156 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,342 hours in all.
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- Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
- The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
- The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
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About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
3,028 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
Noonday is book 3 of Pat Barker's Life Class series: a 9.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Stephen Boxer, John Sackville and Anne Reid and others, released March 8, 2016, on the Historical (Fiction) and Westerns & War shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Stephen Boxer, John Sackville, Anne Reid, Finlay Robertson, Juliet Stevenson
- Released
- March 8, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction), Westerns & War, Literary Fiction
- Series
- The Life Class Trilogy #3
- ISBN
- 9781504686044
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Noonday audiobook?
Noonday runs 9.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.
Is the Noonday audiobook free?
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Who narrates Noonday?
Noonday is narrated by Stephen Boxer, John Sackville, Anne Reid and Finlay Robertson and others.