Patricia Robins (born 1 February 1921 in Hove, Sussex, England) is a British romance novelist, also known as Claire Lorrimer.Robins comes from an artistic family. Her maternal grandfather was Herman Klein, a musician and her maternal grandmother was the writer Kathleen Clarice Groom. Her mother was the popular romance writer Denise Robins, who was the first president of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1960–1966).