About Betty

Betty Firth is an author of heartwarming, thought-provoking World War II-set sagas from Yorkshire, UK.

Betty Firth grew up in rural West Yorkshire, right in the heart of Brontë country… and she’s still there. After graduating from Durham University with a degree in English Literature, she dallied with living in cities including London, Nottingham and Cambridge, but eventually came back to her beloved Yorkshire. She was the recipient of the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Comedy of the Year Award 2020 for A Question of Us (written as Mary Jayne Baker).

Betty also writes funny, heartfelt contemporary women’s fiction as Mary Jayne Baker and Lisa Swift and cosy mysteries as Penny Blackwell, as well as the saga Edie’s Home for Strays as Gracie Taylor. You can find out more about her books under her different identities here.

Betty is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, the Society of Authors and the Historical Writers’ Association.

In addition to her novels, Betty also writes scripts for pantomimes that are available to license for amateur and professional productions.