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Summer by Ali Smith

Summer: Audiobook

Book 4 of the Seasonal Quartet series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Summer audiobook runs 9.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Juliette Burton (about 6.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

9.5listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 9.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Summer at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day19 days
1 hour / day10 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×7 days

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

What our data says

  • At 9.5 hours, it runs longer than 54% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Seasonal Quartet

This is book 4. Books 1 to 3 run 20 hours before it; books 1 to 4 run 29.5 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Autumn5.5 hrs
2Winter7.5 hrs
3Spring7.1 hrs
4Summer9.5 hrs

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

2,951 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

Summer is book 4 of Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet series: a 9.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Juliette Burton, released August 25, 2020, on the Literary Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
9.5 hrs
Narrated by
Juliette Burton
Released
August 25, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Literary Fiction
Series
Seasonal Quartet #4
ISBN
9781980085645

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Summer audiobook?

Summer runs 9.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.3 hours.

Is the Summer audiobook free?

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

Who narrates Summer?

Summer is narrated by Juliette Burton.