Caitlin Davies (born 1964) is an English author. Her parents are Margaret Forster and Hunter Davies, both well-known writers.
Although born in England, Davies has been associated with Botswana since 1990 when she met her husband, Ron, while studying for a Masters in English at Clark University, USA. Relocating to Botswana and working as a teacher, and then a freelance journalist, she wrote the novel Jamestown Blues and The Return of El Negro. The victim of a brutal assault and rape, she was active in research concerning domestic violence in Botswana.
She returned to England with her daughter after divorcing her husband and published a memoir about her experiences, called Place of Reeds; her novel Black Mulberries was published in 2008. Her novel, Friends Like Us was published in September 2009.
She is currently working on a fictionalised account of two Edwardian baby farmers, who were hanged at Holloway Prison in 1903. The Ghost of Lily Painter will be published by Hutchinson in June 2010 and in Windmill paperback in 2011.
She is also writing an illustrated non-fiction book on the bathing ponds and lido on Hampstead Heath, with photographer Ruth Corney, to be published by Frances Lincoln in 2012. She also writes education and careers features for The Independent newspaper.