The Paying Guests: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Paying Guests runs 21.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Juliet Stevenson (about 14.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 21.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 43 days |
| 1 hour / day | 22 days |
| 2 hours / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 15 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 21.5 hours, it runs longer than 98% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Juliet Stevenson
Juliet Stevenson narrates 150 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,206 hours in all.
- A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
- The Signature of All Things
- The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
- The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
- Miss Benson's Beetle
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
251 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 Paying Guests is an audiobook by Sarah Waters: a 21.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Juliet Stevenson, released September 16, 2014, on the Historical (Fiction) and LGBTQ+ (Fiction) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 21.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Juliet Stevenson
- Released
- September 16, 2014
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction), LGBTQ+ (Fiction), Literary Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780698179929
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Paying Guests as an audiobook?
The Paying Guests runs 21.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 14.3 hours.
Is The Paying Guests free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Paying Guests?
The Paying Guests is narrated by Juliet Stevenson.
Is The Paying Guests worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 14.3 hours, saving 7.2 hours.