She earned the Orange Award for New Writers (part of the Women's Prize for Fiction) in 2010 for her first novel, The Boy Next Door, a love story set against the backdrop of racism and political turmoil of 1980s Zimbabwe.

[1] Her second novel, Peace and Conflict, covers family and political history through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy.

[2] Sabatini was born in Hwange, Zimbabwe, and grew up in Bulawayo, the country's second-largest city.

[4] She attended the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, where she was introduced to feminism and political action during her degree in philosophy.

Sabatini later earned a master's degree in child development from the Institute of Education at University College London.