The Girl in the Bushes

Tineke Honingh

A moving novel for 10+

Strong dialogues and well-developed characters

A book about being different and trying to understand the world

12-year-old Erie no longer goes to school. She is fed up with stupid papers and group assignments and most of all, she is not interested in what her classmates think about her diagnosis. Finally, she has time to work on her own project. Hidden in the bushes, she secretly observes the residents of holiday park De Vliegenzwam, because she is dealing with a difficult question: “Why do people do what they do?”. Meanwhile, to Bas' dismay, his father decides to spend some quality time together at the holiday park. Bas finds himself at the top of a hill, surrounded by trees. No decent roads anywhere. So convenient for someone in a wheelchair who has a passion for wheelchair basketball...

When Erie watches Bas from the bushes, she gets caught. A girl in the bushes! A girl who knows everything about animals, but nothing about people. Before Bas knows it, he has a project of his own. He needs to find out why the girl in the bushes does what she does.

Tineke Honingh is a communications consultant, author and for a while she also was a teacher. First and foremost, however, she writes stories intended for children and young adults, or short stories intended for a magazine, screenplays for a comic strip, a serial on the Internet or an extensive story that ends up becoming a book, such as The (Un)usual Story of Bo (and Tom), which was highly praised upon publication.