Jenny Pattrick
Author of The Denniston Rose
About the Author
Jenny Pattrick was born in 1936 in Wellington. She worked as a teacher and later began her career as a jeweller. Pattrick has been a full time writer since 1993 and has written fiction for both print and radio. With her musician husband, Laughton Pattrick, she has written several songs and musical show more shows for children. Her songbooks include Songs for Seasons, On our Street, and The Farm at the End of the Road. Pattrick is best-known as a historical novelist. Her first novel, The Denniston Rose and its sequel, Heart of Coal, are two of New Zealand¿s biggest-selling novels. In 2005 Pattrick published Catching the Current. Pattrick has long been active in the arts community and has served as President of the Crafts Council. In Touch with Grace is a contemporary novel, in prose and letters, about Grace, an independent octogenarian, her love affair with Max and the various complications his family bring into her life. Jenny Pattrick was awarded the 2009 NZ Post Mansfield Prize, incorporating the six-month Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in Menton France. Her novel Inheritance was published in 2010 and in 2012 she publisher the novel Skylark. In 2014 her title Heartland was published. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: New Zealand Book Council
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- Birthdate
- 1936
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Birthplace
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Places of residence
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Occupations
- novelist
jeweller
teacher - Relationships
- Pattrick, Laughton (husband)
- Awards and honors
- Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship (2009)
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- Works
- 14
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 323
- Popularity
- #73,309
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 14
- ISBNs
- 50
- Favorited
- 1