the house without windows by barbara newhall follett

Penguin are delighted to republish Barbara Newhall Follett’s extraordinary feminist fable for the next generation of nature lovers and escapees to discover and cherish. Years later, as an adult herself, Barbara followed in the footsteps of her radical heroine – dissatisfied with the limitations of life as a respectable married woman, she walked out of her house one day and simply disappeared. The book went on to become a million-copy bestseller.

But she slips away once more, following her wild heart out of the door and far away…īarbara Newhall Follett was just thirteen years old when she published The House Without Windows in 1927. Her heartbroken parents follow her at first, bringing her back home to ‘safety’ and locking her up in the stifling square of the house. Little Eepersip doesn’t want to live in a house with doors and windows and a roof, so she runs away to live in the wild – first in the Meadow, then by the Sea, and finally in the Mountain. Gloriously illuminated by Jackie Morris’s moving art, this is a work of strange power for our own bewildered times’ Nick Drake ‘Miraculous – a fearless odyssey into a dreamtime of wildness and enchantment. Perfection’ Eleanor Farjeon, Winner of the Carnegie Medal and The Hans Christian Andersen Awardĭiscover this extraordinary lost classic of nature writing – a fable about wildness and the desire to escape – beautifully illustrated by beloved artist and The Lost Words creator Jackie Morris I can safely promise joy to any reader of it. These pages simply quiver with the beauty, happiness and vigour of forests, seas and mountains.

The house without windows by barbara newhall follett