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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A latter-day Beauty and the Beast (KIRKUS REVIEWS) from the bestselling author of TURTLE MOON. Robin Moore discovers her own free spirit through a stranger she brings home to her perfectly ordered neighborhood. As Robin impulsively draws this beautiful, uncivilized man into her world--meanwhile coping with divorce and a troubled teenage son--she begins to question her wisdom and doubt her own heart.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A suburban woman discovers her own wild spirit in this "suspenseful...dark, romantic meditation on what it means to be human"(<i>The New Yorker</i>) from the bestselling author of <i>The Rules of Magic</i>. <p/></b>Robin Moore, coping with a divorce and a troubled teen-aged son, impulsively rescues a strange man from a psychiatric ward--a beautiful, uncivilized innocent who has been raised in the wilderness and possesses no more sophistication than a child. But when she brings him home to her perfectly ordered neighborhood, the events that follow cause Robin to question her wisdom and doubt her own heart--and, ultimately, to change all of her ideas about love and humanity. <p/><b>"Her richest and wisest, as well as her boldest, novel to date."--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for <i>Second Nature</i></b> <p/>"Hoffman tells a great story. Expect to finish this one in a single, guilty sitting."--<i>Mirabella</i> <p/>"Intelligent and absorbing...a celebration of the simple, unstinting grace of human love."--<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i> <p/>"Generous, magical...<i>Second Nature</i> may be best read at full speed, hurtling down the mountain, as if falling in love."--<i>San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle</i> <p/>"A rich and satisfying concoction...[A] modern fairy tale, full of insights into the battle between instinct and upbringing, desire and conformity."--<i>Booklist</i> <p/>"Iridescent prose, taut narrative suspense, alluring atmosphere, vivid characters."--<i>Boston Sunday Globe</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Alice Hoffman</b> is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including <i>The Rules of Magic</i>, <i>Practical Magic</i>, <i>The Marriage of Opposites</i>, <i>The Red Garden</i>, the Oprah's Book Club selection <i>Here on Earth</i>, <i>The Museum of Extraordinary Things</i>, and <i>The Dovekeepers</i>. She lives near Boston.

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