Benet was born to a Spanish father and a Welsh mother and raised in South London until age 13.
Spray Painted Bananas was republished in September 2014 by Harper Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins and renamed the Temp.
She lists herself as a Wattpad sensation after her book received over one million hits, which led to her signing with a literary agent: MBA.
Her debut novel, Shopgirl diaries, began as a blog about working in her parents' chandelier shop and was commissioned as a book by Salt Publishing.
It was also made into a short film starring Blake Harrison from the Inbetweeners, Katy Wix and Annette Badland.