About the Author

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 1978. She studied English at Oxford University. She currently lives in Newton Stewart, UK.

Reviews

“In this lovely, inventive book, Maitland pursues the psychic juncture between forests and fairy tales…the author's research is diligent, her analytical skills sharp, and her prose lean and compelling…The argument she makes for a connection between the woods and the fairy tale is a convincing one and so finely constructed that this odd marriage between fiction and essay proves successful and thought–provoking.”
—Publishers Weekly