A wild thing

The townspeople believed she was a demon spirit...They frightened each other with tales of a wild young creature glimpsed here and there for an instant, then vanished. In truth, Morag was a lonely young runaway, a girl, not quite sixteen years old, who had deserted the poverty and pain of life as an unwanted child to live a harsh dream of freedom in the wilderness. Her home was a cave, her companions two goats and a moss-covered skeleton-- until, one day, a boy wandered into her strange, solitary existence and brought with him all the joys and evil of the civilization she had fled.. The most provocative adventure story since Lord of the Flies... "Extraordinary!" - The New York Times