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The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The Doctor's Wife: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Doctor's Wife runs 18 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Kirsten Wever (about 12 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

18listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 18 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Doctor's Wife at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day36 days
1 hour / day18 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×12 days

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

What our data says

  • At 18 hours, it runs longer than 93% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

690 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2025 recording read by Eloise Fairfax runs 2.3 hours shorter (15.7 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 Doctor's Wife is an audiobook by Mary Elizabeth Braddon: a 18-hour unabridged recording, read by Kirsten Wever, released August 26, 2016, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
18 hrs
Narrated by
Kirsten Wever
Released
August 26, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction)

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Doctor's Wife as an audiobook?

The Doctor's Wife runs 18 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12 hours.

Is The Doctor's Wife free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Doctor's Wife?

The Doctor's Wife is narrated by Kirsten Wever.

Is The Doctor's Wife worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 12 hours, saving 6 hours.