Normal Rules Don't Apply: A beautiful short story collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Normal Rules Don't Apply: A beautiful short story collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author audiobook runs 5.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Paterson Joseph (about 3.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 5.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 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 5.6 hours, it is shorter than 81% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Paterson Joseph
Paterson Joseph narrates 23 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 470 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
1,036 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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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
Normal Rules Don't Apply: A beautiful short story collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author is an audiobook by Kate Atkinson: a 5.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Paterson Joseph, released August 24, 2023, on the Literary Fiction and Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Paterson Joseph
- Released
- August 24, 2023
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature), Short Stories
- ISBN
- 9781529905144
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Normal Rules Don't Apply: A beautiful short story collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author audiobook?
Normal Rules Don't Apply: A beautiful short story collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author runs 5.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.8 hours.
Is the Normal Rules Don't Apply: A beautiful short story collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author audiobook free?
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Who narrates Normal Rules Don't Apply: A beautiful short story collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author?
Normal Rules Don't Apply: A beautiful short story collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author is narrated by Paterson Joseph.