Wilderness Child: When a Child Is Abandoned on Her Family's Farm During the Great Plague of 1350, an Old-Time Storyteller, a Raven, a Cat and a Dog Tell Her Archetypal Irish Tale.

In WILDERNESS CHILD, playwright and novelist Barbara Hite shows her usual loving respect for and understanding of her young heroin and the creatures who fill her life. Hite, mother of three, spent her professional life as an English teacher in middle and upper level educational systems; she also studied biology and worked with animal rescue groups in her Norfolk, VA home. Here, in her latest novel, Hite demonstrates again her uncanny ability to describe typical animal and human behaviors in accurate, unsentimental terms, and, though the story itself has the flavor of an old folk tale, it raises questions about women's choices in the world today.