A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window is the debut studio album by the English rock band Cardiacs, released in 1988. It was recorded at The Workhouse studios in London over a two-year period and produced by Cardiacs leader Tim Smith. The single from the album, "Is This The Life", saw brief chart success due to exposure on mainstream radio, and garnered the attention of a wider audience when it entered the Independent Top 10 in the UK.