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  • Published: 2 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241986073
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $21.00

The House Without Windows




A lost classic of children's nature writing - introduced and illustrated by beloved creator of The Lost Words, Jackie Morris

This is the irresistible and entirely unique story of one little girl's desire to escape into the wilderness.

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. Her heartbroken parents follow her, bringing her back home to 'safety' and locking her up in the stifling square of the house. But she slips away once more, following her heart into the richness of untrammelled nature and disappearing forever.

First published in 1927 and written by a child of just twelve years old, The House Without Windows is an extraordinary paean to the transcendent beauty of the natural world, and the human capacity to connect with it.

  • Published: 2 February 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241986073
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $21.00

Praise for The House Without Windows

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