Book of Silence

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Price: £17.99 Ex VAT: £17.99 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Date Amended: 10/11/2008 Book Number: 123566 Author: Sara Maitland Publisher: Granta Books Book Condition: NEW Binding: Hardback ISBN: 1847080421 Publish Year: 2008 Description/Notes: Sara will be appearing at the Wigtown Book Festival 2008. After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Australian bush, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Her memoir of these experiences is interwoven with the history of silence through fairy-tale and myth, Western and Eastern religious traditions, the Enlightenment and psychoanalysis, up to the ambivalence towards silence in contemporary society. Maitland has built a hermitage on an isolated moor in Galloway, and the book culminates powerfully with her experiences of silence in this new home. "A Book of Silence" is a deeply thoughtful, honest and illuminating memoir about a phenomenon too often neglected in the contemporary world.