'A classic, as miraculous and awe-inspiring as the nine-year-old author. I can safely promise joy to any reader of The House Without Windows. 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. Republished by Penguin with a new introduction and hand-inked illustrations by beloved artist Jackie Morris, The House Without Windows is a timeless fable about wildness, freedom and the redemptive power of the natural world. 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.
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