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The Hidden Palace by Dinah Jefferies

The Hidden Palace: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Daughters of War series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Hidden Palace runs 14.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Stephanie Racine (about 9.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

14.3listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2022released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 14.3 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Hidden Palace at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day29 days
1 hour / day15 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×10 days

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

What our data says

  • At 14.3 hours, it runs longer than 89% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Daughters of War

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 14.9 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 41.8 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Daughters of War14.9 hrs
2The Hidden Palace14.3 hrs
3Night Train to Marrakech12.6 hrs

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

1,336 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

The Hidden Palace is book 2 of Dinah Jefferies's Daughters of War series: a 14.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Stephanie Racine, released November 22, 2022, on the Historical (Fiction) and Westerns & War shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
14.3 hrs
Narrated by
Stephanie Racine
Released
November 22, 2022
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction), Westerns & War, Literary Fiction
Series
The Daughters of War #2
ISBN
9780008546328

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Hidden Palace as an audiobook?

The Hidden Palace runs 14.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.5 hours.

Is The Hidden Palace free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Hidden Palace?

The Hidden Palace is narrated by Stephanie Racine.

Is The Hidden Palace worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.5 hours, saving 4.8 hours.