During her war nursing work, she broke her arm when a truck overturned, and she was shot in both legs.
[8] She wrote two science fiction novels, one of which was The Long Way Back, about African colonization of Britain following a nuclear holocaust.
[2] In a 1962 review essay in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher counted Bennett among "the best Englishwomen in the suspense field," alongside Charity Blackstock, Nina Bawden, and Joan Fleming.
[11] Bennett wrote scripts for television, including contributions to Maigret, Emergency-Ward 10, Market in Honey Lane and Quick Before They Catch Us.
In early 1964, she was the second female writer to be associated with Doctor Who, though the historical story she was scheduled to contribute never went ahead.