The Long Way Home: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Thistle Hill series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Long Way Home runs 8.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Evan Parker (about 5.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 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 8.5 hours, it runs longer than 56% of the 16,241 Modern audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Thistle Hill
This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 17.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Long Way Home | 8.5 hrs |
| 2 | Before Too Long | 8.8 hrs |
More narrated by Evan Parker
Evan Parker narrates 11 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 82 hours in all.
About as long, on the Modern shelf
3,302 Modern 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 Long Way Home is book 1 of Kathy Altman's Thistle Hill series: a 8.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Evan Parker, released December 21, 2023, on the Modern and Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Evan Parker
- Released
- December 21, 2023
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Modern, Fiction
- Series
- Thistle Hill #1
- ISBN
- 9781961992030
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Long Way Home as an audiobook?
The Long Way Home runs 8.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.6 hours.
Is The Long Way Home free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Long Way Home?
The Long Way Home is narrated by Evan Parker.