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This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell

This Must Be the Place: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the This Must Be the Place audiobook runs 14.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Graham Rowat and Saskia Maarleveld (about 9.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

14.8listening hrs
Historical (Fiction)store shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 14.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish This Must Be the Place at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day30 days
1 hour / day15 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×10 days

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What our data says

  • At 14.8 hours, it runs longer than 86% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf

1,632 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2023 recording read by Thomas Judd and Penelope Rawlins runs 0.3 hours shorter (14.5 hours).

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

This Must Be the Place is an audiobook by Maggie O'Farrell: a 14.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Graham Rowat and Saskia Maarleveld, released July 19, 2016, on the Historical (Fiction) and Drama shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
14.8 hrs
Narrated by
Graham Rowat, Saskia Maarleveld
Released
July 19, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Historical (Fiction), Drama
ISBN
9781501916014

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the This Must Be the Place audiobook?

This Must Be the Place runs 14.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.8 hours.

Is the This Must Be the Place audiobook free?

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

Who narrates This Must Be the Place?

This Must Be the Place is narrated by Graham Rowat and Saskia Maarleveld.

Is This Must Be the Place worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.8 hours, saving 4.9 hours.