'The House Without Windows' Barbara Newhall Follett

Discover a dazzling lost classic of nature writing and a visionary work of feminist empowerment- written almost a century ago by a twelve year old child.

Republished by Penguin with a new introduction and hand-inked illustrations by beloved artist Jackie Morris, The House Without Windows, by Barbara Newhall Follett, is a timeless fable about wildness, freedom and the redemptive power of the natural world.

First published in 1927, The House Without Windows has been described as “a lost classic of children's nature writing”. It tells the story of a young girl who doesn't want to live in a house with doors and windows and a roof, so she runs away to live in the wild.

Jackie first met this story about six years ago and became captivated by the author Barbara Newhall Follett.
"There are so many parallels to The Lost Words. Barbara loved dictionaries. Her literacy, both natural and in words, was so rich.
She loved the wild places, thrived in them, and she created a wild child of perfection in a Utopian dream sequence of a novel". Jackie Morris