She was born in Ramsgate, Kent, England and moved to Australia with her family in 1928.
She originally worked as a secretary, writing radio plays and sketches in her spare time.
She eventually moved on to writing crime novels and TV scripts.
[1] She wrote so many episodes of the ABC TV series Australian Playhouse one critic called it "The Pat Flower Show".
Flower committed suicide in New South Wales, Australia in September 1977.