Hendrik Hoitinga

Hendrik Hoitinga was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland, in the Netherlands and emigrated to New Zealand at 10. He travelled extensively during his teens and into his twenties and married his wife in Auckland in 1980, before relocating to the UK in 1990. They have two children. Hendrik worked in retail for over 26 years but a change of direction in the mid nineties when he and his wife were commissioned and ordained as officers for the Salvation Army. They served in England, Belgium, Wales and Scotland. Hendrik has been able to focus on his writing since he retired in 2017. Now a grandfather living in Wick in Scotland, he still loves travelling, music from the sixties and seventies and collects Dutch comic books.