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The Things We Keep: The heartbreaking, hopeful story of a love that can never be lost from the bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth

The Things We Keep: The heartbreaking, hopeful story of a love that can never be lost from the bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Things We Keep: The heartbreaking, hopeful story of a love that can never be lost from the bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law runs 9.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Barrie Kreinik and Therese Plummer (about 6.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

9.8listening hrs
Modernstore shelf
2025released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

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What our data says

  • At 9.8 hours, it runs longer than 72% of the 16,241 Modern audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by Barrie Kreinik

Barrie Kreinik narrates 215 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,156 hours in all.

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About as long, on the Modern shelf

3,401 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 Things We Keep: The heartbreaking, hopeful story of a love that can never be lost from the bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law is an audiobook by Sally Hepworth: a 9.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Barrie Kreinik and Therese Plummer, released December 18, 2025, on the Modern shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
9.8 hrs
Narrated by
Barrie Kreinik, Therese Plummer
Released
December 18, 2025
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Modern
ISBN
9781035096169

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Things We Keep: The heartbreaking, hopeful story of a love that can never be lost from the bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law as an audiobook?

The Things We Keep: The heartbreaking, hopeful story of a love that can never be lost from the bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law runs 9.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.6 hours.

Is The Things We Keep: The heartbreaking, hopeful story of a love that can never be lost from the bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Things We Keep: The heartbreaking, hopeful story of a love that can never be lost from the bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law?

The Things We Keep: The heartbreaking, hopeful story of a love that can never be lost from the bestselling author of The Mother-in-Law is narrated by Barrie Kreinik and Therese Plummer.