Sara Maitland grew up in London and South West Scotland. Maitland is the author of several books including Book of Silence and Daughter of Jerusalem, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1978. She studied English at Oxford University. She currently lives in Newton Stewart, UK.
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A personal and cultural exploration of silence and its value in our lives-'[an] artful book, mixing autobiography, travel writing, meditation, and essay' (Independent, UK). In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthoo... SEE MORE