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Seascape
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186 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1995
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About the author
Anne Weale
218 books49 followersJay Blakeney
aka Anne Weale, Andrea Blake
Jay Blakeney was born on Juny 20, 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writing gene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines.
At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of the world. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation.
Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never have become a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a background and plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. She can write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience.
When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist, writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with seven books published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Her husband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fiction income -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the work of authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year.
She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in a very small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, a street, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of rural Spain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing the Net, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books.
She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. At the time of her death, on October 24, 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right".
aka Anne Weale, Andrea Blake
Jay Blakeney was born on Juny 20, 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writing gene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines.
At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of the world. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation.
Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never have become a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a background and plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. She can write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience.
When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist, writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with seven books published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Her husband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fiction income -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the work of authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year.
She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She also wrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in a very small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, a street, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of rural Spain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing the Net, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books.
She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. At the time of her death, on October 24, 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right".
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July 21, 2024
I started out 2017 with Emma Darcy's wonderful Pattern of Deceit and I am happy to conclude the year with another wonderful read, Anne Weale's Seascape.
First, the setting of Chania, Crete, where the protagonists go on an artists' teaching holiday with a group of enthusiastic art students, was a standout.
Then the hero compares the heroine to one of Russell Flint's voluptuous mermaids.
He later examines the heroine's eyes with a magnifying glass so that he can capture the unique combination of shades to reproduce it later on canvas lol. Not to be outdone, the heroine, noticing that the hero loves to use terre verte (a naturally occurring green clay that is found in Italy) in his paintings, strives to find a dress that will recreate the same blue and green mesmerizing effect for his eyes to feast on.
A pretty sweet way to end the year.
First, the setting of Chania, Crete, where the protagonists go on an artists' teaching holiday with a group of enthusiastic art students, was a standout.
Then the hero compares the heroine to one of Russell Flint's voluptuous mermaids.
He later examines the heroine's eyes with a magnifying glass so that he can capture the unique combination of shades to reproduce it later on canvas lol. Not to be outdone, the heroine, noticing that the hero loves to use terre verte (a naturally occurring green clay that is found in Italy) in his paintings, strives to find a dress that will recreate the same blue and green mesmerizing effect for his eyes to feast on.
A pretty sweet way to end the year.
October 15, 2018
The rating for this book is a perfect 3 !!! That's no weird coincidence. It is just that sort of story. Good but not great. Dull but not boring. A perfect 3 !
The guy is an 'artist' with a hot bod and cool pay packet. Sounds rather unreal isn't it!? He paints, painting is in his genes. His estranged grand-mom paints too. She also conducts painting holiday tours. And the heroine is her secretary of sorts.
This time, the tour is in trouble because grand mom is taken ill. Heroine rushes off to mend fences between the old lady and our hot bod. Of course he agrees. He takes a shine to her at first sight you see. So while the oldie is recuperating at some picturesque nursing home, the guy plays substitute tour guide for a group of painting enthusiasts.
There is a not so important OM and OW in the background with a mini story of their own. An older couple on the tour looking for a second chance at love. Their story never gets a proper closure.
The guy is charming to our girl through the tour. Serenades, flirts, and occasionally gets into heavy duty seduction. And the girl is loving it !! She does have a general apprehension about the guy. Because of his playboy reputation and his estrangement with an old frail lady. But the attraction for the stud is overwhelming.
In the meantime , there is a poor doctor waiting at the back of the scenes for the heroine to take notice. But he is no match to the hot bod, you see.
Anyway, the tour ends. The hero makes up with the old lady. A small sad story of each other's childhood is exchanged. And that's that! Nothing stops them from declaring undying love and getting into bed pronto! So that's precisely what they land up doing.
Ordinary fare. One time read.
The guy is an 'artist' with a hot bod and cool pay packet. Sounds rather unreal isn't it!? He paints, painting is in his genes. His estranged grand-mom paints too. She also conducts painting holiday tours. And the heroine is her secretary of sorts.
This time, the tour is in trouble because grand mom is taken ill. Heroine rushes off to mend fences between the old lady and our hot bod. Of course he agrees. He takes a shine to her at first sight you see. So while the oldie is recuperating at some picturesque nursing home, the guy plays substitute tour guide for a group of painting enthusiasts.
There is a not so important OM and OW in the background with a mini story of their own. An older couple on the tour looking for a second chance at love. Their story never gets a proper closure.
The guy is charming to our girl through the tour. Serenades, flirts, and occasionally gets into heavy duty seduction. And the girl is loving it !! She does have a general apprehension about the guy. Because of his playboy reputation and his estrangement with an old frail lady. But the attraction for the stud is overwhelming.
In the meantime , there is a poor doctor waiting at the back of the scenes for the heroine to take notice. But he is no match to the hot bod, you see.
Anyway, the tour ends. The hero makes up with the old lady. A small sad story of each other's childhood is exchanged. And that's that! Nothing stops them from declaring undying love and getting into bed pronto! So that's precisely what they land up doing.
Ordinary fare. One time read.
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June 8, 2020When Kate Poole tracked down the estranged grandson of her beloved employer, she little guessed the consequences her actions would bring. A renowned playboy, xan Walcott was unlike any man she had ever known - and decidedly more dangerous! He would use and abandon her without hesitation. Though necessity had forced her to work alongside Xan in Crete, Kate was hoping her own practical nature would save her from falling for Xan's legendary charm.
November 1, 2021
Good with pleasant characters we can relate to and lovely settings. So far all the Anne Weale stories leave the likeable, pleasant wanna-be OM/OW hanging out there with no resolution. The OM/OW are nice people who deserve better than to be abandonded like an old shoe.
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