The Cement Garden: Audiobook
Book 7 of the Vintage Blue series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Cement Garden runs 4.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt (about 3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 4.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day | 5 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 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 4.5 hours, it is shorter than 87% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt
Julian Rhind-Tutt narrates 90 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 634 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
514 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 Steven Crossley runs 0.4 hours longer (4.9 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
The Cement Garden is book 7 of Ian McEwan's Vintage Blue series: a 4.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, released November 13, 2014, on the Coming of Age and Drama shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 4.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Released
- November 13, 2014
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Coming of Age, Drama, Literary Fiction
- Series
- Vintage Blue #7
- ISBN
- 9781473513907
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Cement Garden as an audiobook?
The Cement Garden runs 4.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3 hours.
Is The Cement Garden free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Cement Garden?
The Cement Garden is narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt.