Jennifer Lynette Pattrick OBE (née Priestley, born 1936) is a New Zealand novelist, known primarily for her historical fiction.
[4] In 2009, she was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship,[1] during which she wrote her sixth novel Inheritance (2010).
[5] She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the arts, in the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours.
[8] Heartland (2014) is set in a fictional town based on the Central Plateau settlement of Rangataua.
[9] Pattrick was a jeweller for 35 years and has had pieces gifted to overseas dignitaries by the New Zealand government.