Dottie is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah published by Jonathan Cape in 1990.

[2] Unlike most of Gurnah's protagonists, the eponymous Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour, who is born in Leeds, England,[3] is not from Zanzibar.

[4][3] Dottie grows up poor,[5] in a family of "ambiguously mixed origins".

[3] The novel describes her struggle to serve as a parent for her brother and sister after her mother dies.

[6] Dottie alludes to the works of Charles Dickens, particularly David Copperfield and Great Expectations.