Sara Maitland

Fairytales are one of our earliest cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Yet both forests and fairy stories are at risk and their loss deprives us of our cultural lifeblood. Maitland visits forests through the seasons, from the exquisite green of a beechwood in spring, to the muffled stillness of a snowy pine wood in winter.

A deeply personal and intellectual account of the author's journey into silence, its cultural history and spiritual nature. An exploration which eventually led to the building of a cottage on an isolated Scottish moor.