Mary Jayne Baker is the pen name of British author Betty Firth. She writes contemporary romantic comedies and is best known for A Question of Us (2019), which won the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Comedy of the Year Award in 2020. Firth has also written wartime sagas under the name Betty Firth, women’s fiction as Lisa Swift and Gracie Taylor, and cosy crime as Penny Blackwell.
According to the author's legend, Mary Jayne Baker was born and raised in rural West Yorkshire, in the heart of Brontë country. She studied English Literature at Durham University before working and living in London, Nottingham and Cambridge. In later years, she returned to Yorkshire with her partner, where she began writing stories set against the backdrop of the Dales.
“I always wanted to write heroines with flaws and the men who love them,” Mary Jayne has explained in interviews.
Her early novels, published under the name Mary Jayne Baker, include The Honey Trap (2016), Meet Me at the Lighthouse (2017), and Runaway Bride (2018). The Love in the Dales series followed with A Bicycle Made for Two (2019) and The Perfect Fit (2018). Recognition came with A Question of Us (2019), which established her reputation in the romantic comedy genre. She went on to publish The Never Have I Ever Club (2020) and Love at First Fight (2021).
In 2022, she released The 24 Hour Dating Agency. The novel follows journalist Saffie, her boss, Tamara, and her friend, Milo. Each character struggles with repeated failures in love, from online dating disappointments to painful break-ups. They turn to a matchmaking service that promises twenty-four-hour dates designed to pair clients with their ideal partners.
The agency offers a “soulmate guarantee” — a promise of meeting The One or receiving money back. The three friends, however, discover that the matches they are given are not what they expected. The story develops around their search for connection and whether love can ever be guaranteed.
Baker also published Santa Maybe in 2022. She continues to release romantic comedies while writing under her other names.
As Betty Firth, she is published by Hera Books and produces historical sagas set during World War II. She is a member of the Society of Authors, the Romantic Novelists’ Association and the Historical Writers’ Association.
Photo credit: www.bettyfirthauthor.co.uk
According to the author's legend, Mary Jayne Baker was born and raised in rural West Yorkshire, in the heart of Brontë country. She studied English Literature at Durham University before working and living in London, Nottingham and Cambridge. In later years, she returned to Yorkshire with her partner, where she began writing stories set against the backdrop of the Dales.
“I always wanted to write heroines with flaws and the men who love them,” Mary Jayne has explained in interviews.
Her early novels, published under the name Mary Jayne Baker, include The Honey Trap (2016), Meet Me at the Lighthouse (2017), and Runaway Bride (2018). The Love in the Dales series followed with A Bicycle Made for Two (2019) and The Perfect Fit (2018). Recognition came with A Question of Us (2019), which established her reputation in the romantic comedy genre. She went on to publish The Never Have I Ever Club (2020) and Love at First Fight (2021).
In 2022, she released The 24 Hour Dating Agency. The novel follows journalist Saffie, her boss, Tamara, and her friend, Milo. Each character struggles with repeated failures in love, from online dating disappointments to painful break-ups. They turn to a matchmaking service that promises twenty-four-hour dates designed to pair clients with their ideal partners.
The agency offers a “soulmate guarantee” — a promise of meeting The One or receiving money back. The three friends, however, discover that the matches they are given are not what they expected. The story develops around their search for connection and whether love can ever be guaranteed.
Baker also published Santa Maybe in 2022. She continues to release romantic comedies while writing under her other names.
As Betty Firth, she is published by Hera Books and produces historical sagas set during World War II. She is a member of the Society of Authors, the Romantic Novelists’ Association and the Historical Writers’ Association.
Photo credit: www.bettyfirthauthor.co.uk
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