The Sea: winner of the Booker Prize, a haunting literary novel of childhood and seaside secrets: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Sea: winner of the Booker Prize, a haunting literary novel of childhood and seaside secrets runs 6.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Jim Norton (about 4.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 6.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 13 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 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 6.4 hours, it is shorter than 76% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Jim Norton
Jim Norton narrates 39 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 279 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
1,421 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 Sea: winner of the Booker Prize, a haunting literary novel of childhood and seaside secrets is an audiobook by John Banville: a 6.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Jim Norton, released October 5, 2007, on the Literary Fiction and Coming of Age shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Jim Norton
- Released
- October 5, 2007
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, Drama
- ISBN
- 9780230708846
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Sea: winner of the Booker Prize, a haunting literary novel of childhood and seaside secrets as an audiobook?
The Sea: winner of the Booker Prize, a haunting literary novel of childhood and seaside secrets runs 6.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.3 hours.
Is The Sea: winner of the Booker Prize, a haunting literary novel of childhood and seaside secrets free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Sea: winner of the Booker Prize, a haunting literary novel of childhood and seaside secrets?
The Sea: winner of the Booker Prize, a haunting literary novel of childhood and seaside secrets is narrated by Jim Norton.