Books by Sara Maitland
Moving to Scotland into a solitary house on the remote moors of Galloway, Sara Maitland now lives the life of quiet she celebrates in her latest book, A Book of Silence. The book is an examination of the importance of silence, its cultural history, and the aversion contemporary society has to it. Although she is now a nonfiction writer, she also has a large bibliography of novels and short stories.
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.
Interviews with Sara Maitland
The best books on Silence, recommended by Sara Maitland
Modern Western societies often seem to be intolerant of silence. Why should this be? And is there any alternative? The author of “A Book of Silence” explains
