Unity Dow began writing fiction soon after becoming Botswana’s first female High Court judge in 1998. She had moved from a frenetic job running a legal practice and a women’s centre near Gaborone to a “tame, prepackaged” life in Lobatse, the sun-baked, one-street seat of her country’s second-highest court.
“Suddenly, there was a silence in my life,” she says. “Instead of working seven days a week, I had nothing to do.”
