Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview
  • The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs

  • By: Jack Gantos
  • Narrated by: Lisa Datz
  • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs

By: Jack Gantos
Narrated by: Lisa Datz
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £7.99

Buy Now for £7.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

On an unseasonably warm Easter Sunday, a young girl named Ivy discovers a chilling secret in the basement of the Rumbaugh pharmacy across the street from the hotel where she lives with her mother. The discovery reveals a disturbing side to the eccentric lives of family friends Abner and Adolph Rumbaugh, known throughout their small western Pennsylvania town simply as the Twins. It seems that Ab and Dolph have been compelled by a powerful mutual love for their deceased mother to do something extraordinary, something that in its own twisted way bridges the gap between the living and the dead. Immediately, Ivy's discovery provokes the revelation of a Rumbaugh family curse, a curse that, as Ivy will learn over the coming years, holds a strange power over herself and her own mother.

In his third book for young adults, Jack Gantos has scripted a completely original drama. With gothic flavor and black humor, he depicts a group of people bound together by love, compulsion, and a passion for taxidermy.

©2006 Jack Gantos (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Too Close to the Falls cover art
All the Lasting Things cover art
Mary Coin cover art
Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass cover art
The Long List Anthology cover art
The Collected Stories of Diane Williams cover art
The Memory of Us cover art
Figures Unseen cover art
A Wolf at the Table cover art
The Almost Sisters cover art
Unorthodox cover art
Second Glance cover art
Priestdaddy cover art
Orphan Train: A Novel cover art

Critic reviews

"Totally engaging, intelligently written." (Kirkus Reviews)
"This offbeat novel...draws readers into a macabre world where taboos are lifted and unconventional desires unleashed." (Publishers Weekly)

What listeners say about The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    0
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    0
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    0
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.