The Tale of Hill Top Farm: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Tale of Hill Top Farm runs 9.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Virginia Leishman (about 6.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 19 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 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 9.3 hours, it runs longer than 63% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter
This is book 1. Books 1 to 8 run 77.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Tale of Hill Top Farm | 9.3 hrs |
| 2 | The Tale of Holly How | 9.2 hrs |
| 3 | The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood | 10.1 hrs |
| 4 | The Tale of Hawthorn House | 10 hrs |
| 5 | The Tale of Briar Bank | 9.7 hrs |
| 6 | The Tale of Applebeck Orchard | 9.8 hrs |
| 7 | The Tale of Oat Cake Crag | 9.7 hrs |
| 8 | The Tale of Castle Cottage | 9.6 hrs |
More narrated by Virginia Leishman
Virginia Leishman narrates 34 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 357 hours in all.
- The Proposal
- Possession
- The Rescue
- Private Arrangements
- The Pursuit
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
6,093 Police & Detective 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 Tale of Hill Top Farm is book 1 of Susan Wittig Albert's Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter series: a 9.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Virginia Leishman, released November 26, 2007, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Virginia Leishman
- Released
- November 26, 2007
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter #1
- ISBN
- 9781428199712
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Tale of Hill Top Farm as an audiobook?
The Tale of Hill Top Farm runs 9.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.2 hours.
Is The Tale of Hill Top Farm free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Tale of Hill Top Farm?
The Tale of Hill Top Farm is narrated by Virginia Leishman.