Suzanna Jansen on Pauper Paradise: 'Poverty still leads to isolation'

The garish signs KEUKENHOF keep on whizzing past café Foolish Business, on a very sticky Tuesday morning. Hordes of tourists throng behind them, ready to spend money on picturesque pictures and unique experiences. My interest today is in the opposite, the desolate 19th century colonies of Drenthe, then called 'Dutch Siberia'. To me, Drenthe is known as ' a cyclist's paradise' but author Suzanna Jansen wrote the 2008 bestseller the P...