Maggie Holt was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, in 1931. She worked as a nurse and midwife for many years before marrying and moving to Manchester where her two daughters were born. Having been an avid reader and scribbler all her life she took a correspondence course in creative writing after her husband's death in 1983, and won the Romantic Novelists' Association New Writers' Award in 1992. Writing as Maggie Bennett, she is also the author of A Child's Voice Calling, A Child at the Door, A Carriage for the Midwife and A Child of Her Time, all available from Arrow.
