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Sara Maitland is a British writer and academic. An accomplished novelist, she is also known for her short stories. Her work has a magic realist tendency. Maitland is regarded as one of those at the vanguard of the 1970s feminist movement, and is often described as a feminist writer. She is a Roman Catholic, and religion is another theme in much of her work.
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Novels
Daughter of Jerusalem (1978)
aka The Languages of Love
Weddings And Funerals (1984) (with Aileen la Tourette)
Virgin Territory (1984)
Arky Types (1987) (with Michelene Wandor)
Three Times Table (1990)
Home Truths (1993)
aka Ancestral Truths
Brittle Joys (1999)
aka The Languages of Love
Weddings And Funerals (1984) (with Aileen la Tourette)
Virgin Territory (1984)
Arky Types (1987) (with Michelene Wandor)
Three Times Table (1990)
Home Truths (1993)
aka Ancestral Truths
Brittle Joys (1999)
Collections
Telling Tales (1983)
More Tales I Tell My Mother (1987) (with others)
A Book of Spells (1987)
Women Fly When Men Aren't Watching (1993)
Angel and Me (1995)
Angel Maker (1996)
On Becoming a Fairy Godmother (2003)
Bound (2004) (with others)
Far North and Other Dark Tales (2008)
Moss Witch (2013)
True North (2024)
More Tales I Tell My Mother (1987) (with others)
A Book of Spells (1987)
Women Fly When Men Aren't Watching (1993)
Angel and Me (1995)
Angel Maker (1996)
On Becoming a Fairy Godmother (2003)
Bound (2004) (with others)
Far North and Other Dark Tales (2008)
Moss Witch (2013)
True North (2024)
Series contributed to
Comma Singles
Seeing Double (2013)
The Woman who Measured the Heavens with a Span (2013)
The Pardon List (2018)
Seeing Double (2013)
The Woman who Measured the Heavens with a Span (2013)
The Pardon List (2018)
Non fiction show
Sara Maitland recommends
The Monster's Wife (2014)
Kate Horsley
"Profoundly touching and weirdly macabre at the same time. Wonderful."
The Diviners (1974)
(Manawka)
Margaret Laurence
"It's hard to think of a contemporary novel more moving and more triumphant than THE DIVINERS."
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