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A Book of Silence

Sara Maitland
Granta, 298pp

Book of SilenceMaitland starts this autobiographical study by telling how she was born in 1950, growing up partly in London and partly at her father's 'enormous' mansion in south-west Scotland. The family was of a social class where 'we were inevitably sent off to boarding schools… a damaging, brutal experience'. ...

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