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The Waiting Room: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope on the Path to Parenthood by Audrey Ward

The Waiting Room: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope on the Path to Parenthood: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Waiting Room: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope on the Path to Parenthood runs 10.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Josie Charles and Olivia Dowd and others (about 6.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.2listening hrs
Medicine & Naturopathystore shelf
2026released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.2 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Waiting Room: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope on the Path to Parenthood at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day21 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×7 days

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What our data says

  • At 10.2 hours, it runs longer than 85% of the 10,901 Medicine & Naturopathy audiobooks in our catalog.

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 Waiting Room: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope on the Path to Parenthood is an audiobook by Audrey Ward: a 10.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Josie Charles, Olivia Dowd and Joseph Tweedale and others, released July 2, 2026, on the Medicine & Naturopathy and Disorders & Diseases shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.2 hrs
Narrated by
Josie Charles, Olivia Dowd, Joseph Tweedale, Helen McAlpine, Oliver Hembrough, Lucy Scott
Released
July 2, 2026
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Medicine & Naturopathy, Disorders & Diseases
ISBN
9780008781804

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Waiting Room: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope on the Path to Parenthood as an audiobook?

The Waiting Room: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope on the Path to Parenthood runs 10.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.8 hours.

Is The Waiting Room: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope on the Path to Parenthood free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Waiting Room: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope on the Path to Parenthood?

The Waiting Room: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope on the Path to Parenthood is narrated by Josie Charles, Olivia Dowd, Joseph Tweedale and Helen McAlpine and others.

Is The Waiting Room: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope on the Path to Parenthood worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.8 hours, saving 3.4 hours.