Jane Anstey was born in 1954 in London. She has lived in Hampshire, Wiltshire and Cornwall, and is now in North Shropshire. She is married with two grown-up daughters. She has published five adult novels and a children's novel.
Her hobbies include reading, gardening, knitting, walking, singing, and of course bellringing (two of her novels are set among church bellringers)! She also enjoys solving Codeword and Sudoku puzzles, and watching films, sport, drama and documentaries on TV, but hates soap opera, game shows and "reality" programmes.