Patricia Robins is a British

United Kingdom

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 romance

Romance novel

The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...

 novelist, also known as Claire Lorrimer.

Robins comes from an artistic family. Her maternal grandfather was Herman Klein

Herman Klein

Herman Klein was an English music critic, author and teacher of singing. Klein's famous brothers included Charles and Manuel Klein...

, a musician and her maternal grandmother was the writer Kathleen Clarice Groom

Kathleen Clarice Groom

Kathleen Clarice Groom, née Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell . She wrote short stories and novels under different pseudonyms: Kit Dealtry, C. Groom, Mrs...

. Her mother was the popular romance writer Denise Robins

Denise Robins

Denise Robins, née Denise Naomi Klein was a prolific British romantic novelist and the first President of the Romantic Novelists' Association...

, who was the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association

Romantic Novelists' Association

The Romantic Novelists' Association is a writers' association in the UK. Founded in 1960, mainly through the efforts of Denise Robins , Barbara Cartland , Vivian Stuart , and other authors like Elizabeth Goudge, Netta Muskett, Catherine Cookson, Rosamunde Pilcher and Lucilla Andrews.The RNA runs...

 (1960–1966). Her maternal uncle was Adrian Cornwell-Clyne, who wrote books on photography and cinematography, another uncle was an artist, as is her daughter.

Biography

Born Patricia Denise Robins on 1 February 1921 in Hove

Hove

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, Sussex

Sussex

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, England

England

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. She is the daughter of Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange and Denise Robins

Denise Robins

Denise Robins, née Denise Naomi Klein was a prolific British romantic novelist and the first President of the Romantic Novelists' Association...

, an author and the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association

Romantic Novelists' Association

The Romantic Novelists' Association is a writers' association in the UK. Founded in 1960, mainly through the efforts of Denise Robins , Barbara Cartland , Vivian Stuart , and other authors like Elizabeth Goudge, Netta Muskett, Catherine Cookson, Rosamunde Pilcher and Lucilla Andrews.The RNA runs...

 (1960–1966). She has two sisters Eve Louise and Anne Eleanor. She has educated at Parents' National Educational Union at Burgess Hill

Burgess Hill

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, Sussex.

Her mother encouraged her to write, and at 12, she published her first children's novellas. She worked with a woman's magazine editorial team and published more children's novellas, she went on to write romance novels like her mother. In the 1967 she started to use the pseudonym Claire Lorrimer to wrote gothic romances, and later family sagas, now she only used this pseudonym.

Patricia Clark lived in rural Kent, she had three children and eight grandchildren.

Children's Books

• The Adventures of the Three Baby Bunnies (1934)
• Tree Fairies (1945)
• Sea Magic (1946)
• The Heart of a Rose (1947)
• The One Hundred Pound Reward (1966)

Romance Novels

• To the Stars (1944)
• See No Evil (1945)
• Three Loves (1949)
• Awake My Heart (1950)
• Beneath the Moon (1951)
• Leave My Heart Alone (1951)
• The Fair Deal (1952)
• So This Is Love (1953)
• Heart's Desire (1953)
• Heaven in Our Hearts (1954)
• One Who Cares (1954)
• Love Cannot Die (1955)
• The Foolish Heart (1956)
• Give All to Love (1956)
• Where Duty Lies (1957)
• He Is Mine (1957)
• Love Must Wait (1958)
• Lonely Quest (1959)
• Lady Chatterley's Daughter (1961)
• The Last Chance (1961)
• Seven Loves (1962)
• The Long Wait (1962)
• The Runaways (1962)
• With All My Love (1963)
• The Constant Heart (1964)
• Any Time At All (1964)
• The Night Is Thine (1964)
• Second Love (1964)
• No More Loving (1965)
• Topaz Island (1965)
• There Is But One (1965)
• The Uncertain Joy (1966)
• Love Me Tomorrow (1966)
• The Man Behind the Mask (1967)
• Sapphire in the sand (1967)
• Forbidden (1967)
• Return to Love (1968)
• No Stone Unturned (1969)
• Laugh on Friday (1969)
• Under the Sky (1970)
• Cinnabar House (1970)
• The Crimson Tapestry (1971) aka The Woven Thread
• Play Fair with Love (1972)
• None But He (1973)
• Forever (1991)
• Fulfilment (1993)
• Forsaken (1993)
• The Legend (1997)

Mavreen (Audio)

1. The Full Moon (1995)
2. Harvest Moon (1995)
3. The New Moon (1995)

Rochford Trilogy

1. The Chatelaine (1978)
2. The Wilderling (1982)
3. Fool's Curtain (1994)

Gothic Romance

• A Voice in the Dark (1967)
• The Secret of Quarry House (1976)
• The Shadow Falls (1974)
• Relentless Storm (1979)

Historical Novels

• Last Year's Nightingale (1984)
• Frost in the Sun (1986)
• The Spinning Wheel (1991)
• The Silver Link (1993)
• Deception (2003)
• Truth to Tell (2007)

Light Romances

• Connie's Daughter (1995)
• Beneath the Sun (1996)
• The Woven Thread (1997)
• Second Chance (1998)
• An Open Door (1999)
• Never Say Goodbye (2000)
• The Search for Love (2000)
• For Always (2001)
• The Faithful Heart (2002)
• Troubled Waters (2004)

Murder Mysteries

• Over My Dead Body (2003)
• Dead Centre (2005)
• Infatuation (2007)

Collections

• Variations: The Snake Belt / One in Three / The WhiteDoves / The Angel and the Witch or Miss Tansley's Easter Play / Trust Me / Once a Year / Goat's Loose / The Patient in Number Twenty-Two / Comfortand Joy / Two Sides to a Coin / Old Toys Wanted / A True Story / PoorLittle Rich Girl / Progress / The Garden (1991)
• Emotions (2008)

Non fiction

• House of Tomorrow (Biography) (1987)
• You Never Know (Autobiography) (2007)