[1] Among her works is a fictionalized biography of the Scottish child poet and writer Marjory Fleming and a volume charting her 30-year friendship with Daphne Du Maurier.
Her parents were Ernest Edmund Henry Malet Vaughan, 7th Earl of Lisburne, and Maria Isabel Regina Aspasia de Bittencourt.
[2] After spending her childhood in Wales, Malet wrote her first novel at the age of 17, Trust in the Springtime, which was published in 1943.
This was followed by My Bird Sings (1946), for which she was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the same year.
Among her other works is a fictionalised biography of Marjory Fleming, the child poet and writer, written when Malet was 20.