Everything, everything

Madeline Whittier is allergic to the world. For seventeen years, she has never left her house, a carefully filtered sanctuary where the only people she sees are her mother and her nurse. Her world is books, and her days are predictable, safe, and silent. But when a new family moves in next door, she sees Olly from her window. He is tall and lean, dressed in all black, and his presence is an unpredictable disruption to the sterile routine she has always known. Their connection begins with glances through glass and soon deepens into a relationship conducted entirely online, a bond that makes Madeline question the very nature of her confinement.

As her feelings for Olly grow, so does her desire for the one thing she has never had: a real, tangible experience of the world. The realization dawns that she was happy before, but she wasn't truly alive. Suddenly, the pristine bubble she has lived in feels more like a prison, and the boy next door represents a risk that could cost her everything. This story, told through a unique mix of vignettes, diary entries, and illustrations, explores whether a life without risk is a life at all, and if love is worth sacrificing everything for.