Caitlin Davies (born 6 March 1964) is an English author, journalist and teacher. Her parents are Hunter Davies and Margaret Forster, both well-known writers. Hunter Davies wrote regularly about Caitlin and her brother Jake and sister Flora in a weekly Punch magazine column which ran in the 1970s, giving a broad insight into their upbringing. In her youth she was also frequently referred to by Auberon Waugh in his Private Eye diary. Davies was associated with Botswana since 1990 when she met her husband, the former Botswana MP Ronald Ridge, while studying for a Master's degree in English at Clark University, USA. Relocating to Botswana and working as a teacher, and then a freelance journalist, she wrote for Botswana's first tabloid newspaper The Voice and then as editor of The Okavango Newspaper. She was twice arrested as a journalist, once for "causing fear and alarm", and acquitted. In 2000, she received an award from the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) "in recognition for consistent and outstanding journalistic work". While living in Botswana, Davies wrote the novel Jamestown Blues and the historical work The Return of El Negro. The victim of a brutal assault and rape, she was active in research concerning domestic violence in Botswana and a founder member of Women Against Rape (WAR) in Maun. Davies returned to England with her daughter after divorcing her husband and published a memoir about her experiences, called Place of Reeds. For several years she wrote education and careers features for The Independent.Davies is the author of six novels; Jamestown Blues (1996), Black Mulberries (2008), Friends Like Us (2009), The Ghost of Lily Painter (2011). Davies wrote an illustrated non-fiction book on the bathing ponds and lido on Hampstead Heath, Taking the Waters: a swim around Hampstead Heath, and a social history of Camden Lock (2013). Her work has appeared in The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, Town and Country and Tate Etc.. In 2015, Davies' non-fiction book Downstream: a history and celebration of swimming the River Thames was published. It was described by The Independent as "a fascinating cultural history". It resulted in a three-week Thames swimming showcase at the Museum of London. Davies' non-fiction book, Bad Girls, is a history of Holloway Prison in north London, once the largest women's prison in Western Europe. Bad Girls was longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019. Davies'