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The Performance by Claire Thomas

The Performance: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Performance runs 5.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Lara Robinson and Sylvie De Crespigny and others (about 3.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

5.7listening hrs
Literary Fictionstore shelf
2021released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 5.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Performance at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day12 days
1 hour / day6 days
2 hours / day3 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×4 days

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What our data says

  • At 5.7 hours, it is shorter than 80% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf

1,060 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 Performance is an audiobook by Claire Thomas: a 5.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Lara Robinson, Sylvie De Crespigny and Tamala Shelton and others, released March 16, 2021, on the Contemporary Women and Literary Fiction shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
5.7 hrs
Narrated by
Lara Robinson, Sylvie De Crespigny, Tamala Shelton, Melissa Madden Gray, Harvey Zielinski, Helen Morse
Released
March 16, 2021
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Contemporary Women, Literary Fiction
ISBN
9780593395493

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Performance as an audiobook?

The Performance runs 5.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.8 hours.

Is The Performance free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Performance?

The Performance is narrated by Lara Robinson, Sylvie De Crespigny, Tamala Shelton and Melissa Madden Gray and others.