Sara Maitland is the author of several books including Book of Silence and Daughter of Jerusalem, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1978. Her latest book is From the Forest: A Search for the Hidden Roots of our Fairytales.
For the Guardian, she named her top ten books of the forest. One title on the list:Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
One of the best picture books ever – so





