Patrea Smallacombe
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Patrea Smallacombe (born 1961, Adelaide, Australia) is a prolific Australian writer and series script editor who contributed to numerous soap operas in her native Australia including The Young Doctors, Prisoner, Neighbours and A Country Practice before moving to the UK in 1987. Since then she has written for many high profile shows including Emmerdale, Brookside, Family Affairs, The Bill and also a long stint on the top rated ITV1 soap opera, Coronation Street. Her aunt, is the (equally prolific) Australian TV series script writer, Betty Quin.
As of 2006, Smallacombe was back on the Coronation Street scriptwriting team.