Born Patricia Denise Robins on 1 February 1921 in Sussex, England. She is the daughter of Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange and Denise Robins, an author and the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960-1966). She has two sisters Anne and Eve.

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 1960's she started to use the pseudonym Claire Lorrimer.

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

As Patricia Robins

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

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

As Claire Lorrimer

Mavreen Saga

1. Mavreen (1976)
2. Tamarisk (1978)
3. Chantal (1980)

Mavreen (Audio)

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

Tamarisk (Audio)

1. The Fledgling (1996)
2. The Skylark (1996)

Rochford Trilogy

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

Ortolans

Ortolans (1990)

1. Eleanor (1994)
2. Sophia (1994)
3. Emma (1994)

Bainbury Saga

1. The Reunion (1997)
2. The Reckoning (1998)

Single novels

Contemporary 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)

Novels

• The Garden (1980)
• The Constant Heart (1998)
• Dead Reckoning (2009)

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)