![]() ![]() She has spent years creating the perfect garden with the help of her parents, but soon tires of it she is, comments Newhall Follett, ‘not a child who could be contented easily’. The House Without Windows follows a young and ‘rather lonely’ female protagonist, who goes by the odd but sweet name of Eepersip Eigleen. I was fascinated by her story, and decided to purchase a copy of The House Without Windows – my first book purchase of 2020, in the month of May. The twenty five-year-old Newhall Follett later disappeared in 1939, quite mysteriously, and it is not known what happened to her. I did a little more research, and discovered that the book was written when the author was just nine years old, and published when she was twelve, in 1927. ![]() I read about Barbara Newhall Follett’s The House Without Windows in a Waterstones newsletter, and thought it sounded intriguing. ![]()
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