True North

Sara Maitland is a visionary writer and thinker. She has been ahead of her time, then she has defined it, then she has struck out way beyond it. Few writers in our language have used a burning intelligence so fearlessly. — Max Porter, Grief is a Thing with Feathers

Writer, thinker, seeker, seer, Sara Maitland is one of our most articulate and probing intellects, with an enervating ability to look closely at things and make us look with her. — Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

Princesses who never wanted to be rescued... debutantes who are unwilling to keep quiet about politics just to preserve their marriage prospects... fairy tale characters who question key motivations in their own, now-famous stories...

The protagonists of Sara Maitland’s remarkable short fiction all seem to be bursting at the seams of their own characterisation, challenging our understanding of age-old narratives, and showing even the fundamentals of storytelling to be fluid, malleable and unreliable.