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The House Without Windows

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241986080

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • RRP: £7.99

The House Without Windows

Escape into the wild from the comfort of your own home this winter, with a dazzling lost classic of nature writing...

Eepersip is a girl with the wild in her heart. She does not want to live locked up behind the walls of a house. So she runs away - first to the Meadow, then to the Sea, and finally to the Mountain. Her heartbroken parents follow their daughter, trying to bring her home safe, but Eepersip has other ideas...

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.

'I can safely promise joy to any reader of The House Without Windows. Perfection' Eleanor Farjeon, winner of the Carnegie Medal and The Hans Christ­ian Andersen Award

'Gloriously illuminated by Jackie Morris's moving art, this is a work of strange power for our own bewildered times' Nick Drake

'A classic, as miraculous and awe-inspiring as the author' Xinran, author of The Good Women of China

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241986080

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • One of the strangest, most enchanting and mystifying stories I've read in recent years . . . It's beautiful, bonkers and brimming with the abundance and richness of nature and a life lived with no boundaries. Also Jackie's intro and illustrations provide a depth and context that only lifts the book and its story higher.

    Rob Cowen

  • . . . Extraordinary. Deeply weird, beautiful & unsettling.

    Robert Macfarlane

  • The House without Windows is miraculous - a fearless odyssey into a dreamtime of wildness and enchantment. Gloriously illuminated by Jackie Morris's moving art, this is a work of strange power for our own bewildered times.

    Nick Drake

  • Astonishingly lyrical

    The Spectator

About the Author

Barbara Newhall Follett

Barbara Newhall Follett was an American child prodigy novelist. Born in 1914, she published her first novel, The House Without Windows, aged twelve. One year later she published another, The Voyage of the Norman D., based on her own experiences sailing round Nova Scotia without her parents at thirteen years old. Barbara Newhall Follett disappeared shortly before Christmas 1939, leaving her home with $30 in her pocket, and was never seen again. The mystery of her disappearance has never been solved.

Barbara Newhall Follett

Jackie Morris

Jackie Morris grew up in the Vale of Evesham, dreaming of becoming an artist and living by the sea. She studied at Hereford College of Arts and at Bath Academy, and went on to illustrate for the New Statesman, Independent and Guardian among many other publications. As a children's author and artist, she has created over forty books, including beloved classics such as Song of the Golden Hare, Tell Me A Dragon, East of the Sun, West of the Moon and The Wild Swans. She collaborated with Ted Hughes, and her books have sold more than a million copies worldwide. Jackie now lives in a cottage on the cliffs of Pembrokeshire, which she shares with a small pride of cats and various other gentle creatures.

Jackie Morris

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Features

‘I feared I would never paint again’: Behind the cover of ‘The Lost Spells’

After The Lost Words, illustrator Jackie Morris decided to collaborate once again with writer Robert Macfarlane. But a family tragedy meant she had to work in the toughest of circumstances. Here she shares her story, and reveals the beautiful artwork itself.
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News

Illustrator of 'The Lost Words' Jackie Morris is awarded the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal

The prestigious medal is the only prize in the UK to solely reward outstanding illustration in a children's book.
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The Lost Words wins the Beautiful Book Award at this year's Books Are My Bag Reader's Awards

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