Career
She is a graduate of Oxford University with a degree in History. She has written under the pen names "P. F. Chisholm" and "Grace Cavendish". In the same year British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3 presented her play, The Flood.
As well as writing radio plays, such as A Room Full of Mirrors, Finney has published fifteen other novels, many of which are set in Elizabethan times.
Finney has also published three books written in "Doglish", the language of dogs.