The Wake-Up Call of the Wild

by Nita Nettleton

When our heroine wakes up in a remote Alaska cabin, alone but for a young wolverine, bruised and bloodied and without memory of who she is and how she got there, what does she do? She makes pancakes. Before long, the woman who christens herself Jane Doe decides that life in the Alaska wilderness suits her just fine, except for an annoying lack of chocolate—and, of course, a memory. In this refreshingly different take on tales of life and survival in the wilderness, Jane discovers who she really is, but it's not the woman she used to be. And that may not sit so well with some of those she left behind!

144 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2005

Reviews

[Alana Bleness · Rating 5 out of 5]

Now I want to read the rest of the series.

[Donna · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book about a woman that wakes up bruised and battered with a bandage around her head at a remote cabin in Alaska. She doesn't remember anything, not her name, what happened to her or how she came to be out in the middle of Nowhere, Alaska. But, she does find an unlikely friend in a young female badger she calls "Maggie" and realizes she likes being there and spending time with her own thoughts. As time goes by she meets a few neighbors, explores around her while doing her chores and slowly starts to remember some things about herself. The question is if she is still the same person she was before.

I really enjoyed this book and I decided to keep it in my collection. I'm going to pick up her other book called Accessories are Everything in the Wild which seems to be a sequel or a related story. The first chapter is in the back of this book but I wouldn't dare start reading it when I don't have the whole book. I would go crazy.

[Laurel · Rating 4 out of 5]

My sister lost my signed copy of this book.