Alice Hoffman is one of my favorite writers. This book lives up to Hoffman's previous sucesses. What I liked about Second Nature was the character development and relationship among the characters. The book does not have anything to do with witchcraft but the characters do have the ability to sense things about others, get a feeling about what will happen. Their insights are way beyond my own. The story concerns a man who was the sole survivor of a plane crash when he was a small child, raised among the wolves. Returned to society as an adult, his insights and discomforts as well as human feelings he cannot avoid are the focus of the story. I recommend this book to all who are looking for a good read.

This is a great book. I have it in hardback. A collector.

This is a sometimes sad, but always entertaining book on people who are "different" in anyway. I loved it. GinaK

This book has a story about a man raised by a wolf pack after a plane crash and how one woman's love and understanding brings him back to the world.

A Desert Island Keeper

He was beautiful. He was innocent. And in the locked room where the psychiatrists kept him, he was treated more ike an animal than a human being. Robin Moore, coping with a divorce-in-progress and a troubled teenaged son, surprised even herself when she impulsively rescued this man, who'd been raised in the wilderness and had no more sophistication than a child. She spirited him home to her suburban town, where she could keep him safe. But with the stange, uncivilized man's arrival came a streak of wild, uncontrollable events that distruged the peace in this perfectly ordered neighborhood-and changed all of Robin's ideas about love and humanity...

psychologically gripping and compelling

my husband and i both read this book and i think we've found a new author we like! in a way it reminds me of anne tyler's books, in a way not. great story.

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