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The Handsome Road by Gwen Bristow

The Handsome Road: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Plantation series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Handsome Road runs 11.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Shaina Summerville (about 7.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

11.8listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2022released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 11.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Handsome Road at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day24 days
1 hour / day12 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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

What our data says

  • At 11.8 hours, it runs longer than 66% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Plantation Trilogy

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 11.4 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 35.6 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Deep Summer11.4 hrs
2The Handsome Road11.8 hrs
3This Side of Glory12.4 hrs

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

3,190 Historical (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

The Handsome Road is book 2 of Gwen Bristow's Plantation series: a 11.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Shaina Summerville, released March 29, 2022, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
11.8 hrs
Narrated by
Shaina Summerville
Released
March 29, 2022
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction)
Series
Plantation Trilogy #2
ISBN
9781666170085

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Handsome Road as an audiobook?

The Handsome Road runs 11.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.9 hours.

Is The Handsome Road free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Handsome Road?

The Handsome Road is narrated by Shaina Summerville.

Is The Handsome Road worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.9 hours, saving 3.9 hours.