Tipping the balance
Hellendoorn, Huberta
Tipping the Balance was inspired by love for the author's birth-place, Warnsveld in Gelderland's De Achterhoek, the seasons, small farmlets with golden fields, the leafy lanes and rivers flowing slowly through the landscape. Jenneken's life is shattered when she learns that her mother Alida's knowledge and use of herbal remedies is considered to be witchcraft and that she must undergo a weighing trial in Oudewater. Jenneken fears also for her ...