The Summer of Starting Over: A Wonderfully Romantic Beach Read: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Big Dune Island series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Summer of Starting Over: A Wonderfully Romantic Beach Read runs 8.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Melie Williams (about 5.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 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 8.6 hours, it runs longer than 58% of the 16,241 Modern audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Big Dune Island
This is book 1. Books 1 to 4 run 36.1 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Summer of Starting Over: A Wonderfully Romantic Beach Read | 8.6 hrs |
| 2 | If I'd Have Known: A Heartwarming, Charming Romance | 7.8 hrs |
| 3 | Where We Belong | 9.9 hrs |
| 4 | The Stories We Tell | 9.9 hrs |
More narrated by Melie Williams
Melie Williams narrates 34 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 246 hours in all.
About as long, on the Modern shelf
3,357 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 Summer of Starting Over: A Wonderfully Romantic Beach Read is book 1 of Savannah Carlisle's Big Dune Island series: a 8.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Melie Williams, released April 1, 2025, on the Modern and Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Melie Williams
- Released
- April 1, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Modern, Fiction
- Series
- Big Dune Island #1
- ISBN
- 9798349120145
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Summer of Starting Over: A Wonderfully Romantic Beach Read as an audiobook?
The Summer of Starting Over: A Wonderfully Romantic Beach Read runs 8.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.7 hours.
Is The Summer of Starting Over: A Wonderfully Romantic Beach Read free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Summer of Starting Over: A Wonderfully Romantic Beach Read?
The Summer of Starting Over: A Wonderfully Romantic Beach Read is narrated by Melie Williams.