· A Book of Silence charts Maitland’s journey towards a more silent life. At around the age of fifty Maitland’s circumstances changed. Her marriage broke down and she began to live (mostly) alone. She found herself thinking more about silence, about seeking a quieter kind of life as well as exploring and becoming more attuned to her faith. · A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland. Click here for the lowest price! Hardcover, , · A Book of Silence grapples with ideas at the very heart of what it is to be human, and Sara Maitland is a joyous champion of the countercultural notion that silence is more than simply an absence of noise. The Times.
P art memoir, part intellectual history, Sara Maitland's book examines not silence, exactly, but solitude and individuals' withdrawal from society. In this communication-frenzied world, it is a. Sara Maitland grew up in London and South West Scotland. Maitland is the author of several books including the Counterpoint Press title, Book of Silence and Daughter of Jerusalem, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in She studied English at Oxford University. She currently lives in Newton Stewart, UK. 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 adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country.
Books. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. A book of silence Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. A book of silence by Sara Maitland. 'A Book of Silence grapples with ideas at the very heart of what it is to be human, and Sara Maitland is a joyous champion of the countercultural notion that silence is more than simply an absence of noise' -The Times 'Maitland's experience has been rich and thorough, and deeply enviable. Sara Maitland's book is an earnest and deep exploration of the nature and cultural significance of silence. By means of a series of real life experiments the author also tries to find out what it takes to put silence at the heart of a creative life. The journey starts with a six-week stay in a remote cottage on the Scottish Isle of Skye.
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