Panter-Downes, Mollie Patricia (1906–1997)

English novelist. She was 16 when she wrote her first novel, A Shoreless Sea (1924). Among her other novels are The Chase (1925), Storm Bird (1929), My Husband Simon (1931), Nothing in Common but Sex (1932), and One Fine Day (1947). During World War II and well into the 1980s she wrote a weekly ‘Letter from England’ for the New Yorker. Her London War Notes was published in 1972.

She was born in London and educated at Heathfield House, Horsham.