A Book of Silence
by Sara Maitland
After growing up in a noisy household as one of six, and later bringing up her own children, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in silence. In this erudite memoir, Maitland explores silence as a practice and experience through history, from desert monks to long-distance sailors, and documents her building of a hermitage on a moor in southwest Scotland as part of her search for holy tranquility.
