‘Dow is both a member of the establishment and, through her fiction, its trenchant critic ... a truly outstanding novelist; the character development is exiguous.’

‘Unity Dow's novels are always more than just stories, and while her legal background informs her perception it does not weigh down her prose, which is vivid, lyrical and sometimes wickedly funny.’

‘Juggling Truths is a beautifully written novel from the remarkable Unity Dow, a judge of the High Court of Botswana.  As in her previous novels, Dow continues the theme of the tension between the old and new ways. Juggling Truths’ protagonist Monei manages to juggle the disjunctive realities of being the fifth of six children of a semi-nomadic farming family, and of being a colonial subject.  Fortunate to go to school at age seven, she splits her life between school/village and family/home, trying to determine what is true in the often-conflicting stories she hears from members of her family, or in churches or in school.'