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The Life and Soul of the Party by Mike Gayle

The Life and Soul of the Party: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Life and Soul of the Party runs 7.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Rhys Swinburn and Claire Morgan and others (about 5.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.8listening hrs
Fictionstore shelf
2010released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 7.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Life and Soul of the Party at common listening paces
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30 min / day16 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 7.8 hours, it is shorter than 64% of the 62,518 Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Fiction shelf

9,578 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 Life and Soul of the Party is an audiobook by Mike Gayle: a 7.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Rhys Swinburn, Claire Morgan and John Hasler and others, released January 1, 2010, on the Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
7.8 hrs
Narrated by
Rhys Swinburn, Claire Morgan, John Hasler, Harriet Carmichael, James Daniel Wilson, Jane Collingwood
Released
January 1, 2010
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Fiction
ISBN
9781407453583

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Life and Soul of the Party as an audiobook?

The Life and Soul of the Party runs 7.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.2 hours.

Is The Life and Soul of the Party free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Life and Soul of the Party?

The Life and Soul of the Party is narrated by Rhys Swinburn, Claire Morgan, John Hasler and Harriet Carmichael and others.