Maitland, Sara

British novelist and non-fiction writer known for work on religion, spirituality, folklore and women's issues, author of books such as A Book of Silence.

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  1. 1. A Book Of Silence

    A lyrical, reflective meditation on voluntary silence and solitude that interweaves personal experiments with longer periods of quiet, cultural and religious histories of silence, and encounters with wild places; the narrator examines how withholding speech reshapes perception, creativity, inner life and bodily awareness, and considers silence as both sanctuary and provocation in a noisy modern world.

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