Second Nature

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the wilderness comes knocking at the door of an ordinary suburban life? In Second Nature, Alice Hoffman weaves a haunting tale of Robin Moore, a woman living a quiet, predictable existence on Long Island, whose world is upended when a feral man — raised by wolves and discovered in the wild — is brought to the hospital where she works. As she nurses the mysterious stranger back to health, she finds herself drawn into a passionate and dangerous relationship that blurs every boundary she has ever known, forcing her to question the very nature of humanity, desire, and belonging. Hoffman, celebrated for her ability to infuse the mundane with the magical, crafts a narrative rich in sensory detail and emotional intensity, threading primal instinct against the constraints of civilised society. Second Nature stands as a powerful meditation on what it means to be truly wild at heart — and whether love, in its most untamed form, can ever truly be tamed. Readers who surrender to its pages will find themselves questioning long after the final sentence: where does human nature end, and something far more ancient begin? Show more