Jay Blakeney (20 June 1929 – 24 October 2007) was a British writer and newspaper reporter, well known as a romance novelist under the pen names Anne Weale and Andrea Blake.
When not travelling, Weale and her husband, who had a son who leads adventure expeditions, spent winters in Spain and summers on the island of Guernsey.
The majority of these titles focus on a fictional English country manor, Longwarden, and its inhabitants throughout time.
From 1998 to 2004, Anne wrote a website review column, called Bookworm on the Net, for The Bookseller, the UK's leading weekly book trade magazine read by 80,000 people in 96 countries.
Weale's books have been translated into Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, Danish, Greek, Italian, Arabic, German, French, Polish and Afrikaans.