When the Boon family moves into an old, ramshackle house at the very edge of a small town in the Netherlands, Oma Mei, the grandmother of seven motherless children, relates the house's remarkable origin in the 1860s.
General Note
"First published in 2004 in Dutch in the Netherlands by Em. Querido's Uitgeverij B.V. as Negen Open Armen"--Page facing t.p.