Caitlin Davies

[1] 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 2000, she received an award from the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) "in recognition for consistent and outstanding journalistic work".

[citation needed] While living in Botswana, Davies wrote the novel Jamestown Blues and the historical work The Return of El Negro.

[citation needed] Davies returned to England with her daughter after divorcing her husband and published a memoir about her experiences, called Place of Reeds (2005) .

[citation needed] In 2015, Davies' non-fiction book Downstream: a history and celebration of swimming the River Thames was published.