Jenny Twist was born in York and brought up in the West Yorkshire mill town of Heckmondwike, the eldest grandchild of a huge extended family.
She left school at fifteen and went to work in an asbestos factory. After working in various jobs, including bacon-packer and escapologist’s assistant (she was The Lovely Tanya), she returned to full-time education and did a BA in history, at Manchester and post-graduate studies at Oxford.
She stayed in Oxford working as a recruitment consultant for many years and it was there that she met and married her husband, Vic.
In 2001 they retired and moved to Southern Spain where they live with their rather eccentric dogs and cat. Besides writing, she enjoys reading, knitting and attempting to do fiendishly difficult logic puzzles.
In July 2018 she won the Author Show TOP FEMALE AUTHOR Fantasy/Horror/Paranormal/Science Fiction award.

Tilly wakes up in the dark, alone and very frightened. She finds she is in a strange room inexplicably furnished in 1940s style. However did she get here? Has she somehow slipped into the past? Has she been kidnapped? Of one thing she is absolutely certain, she has never seen this place in her life before. 
All in the Mind is a fascinating tale exploring the human capacity to overcome any obstacle, no matter how great, as long as you believe you can.
Tilly is part of an experiment working on a cure for Alzheimer's disease. She and most of the other patients taking part in the experiment seem to make a full recovery, but there is a strange side effect. 
Tilly and her fellow experimental subjects appear to be getting younger.
Can the same experiment be repeated for Tilly's beloved husband so that he can recover from a stroke? Tilly thinks it can and she will move heaven and earth to make sure it happens.
A charming and thought-provoking story full of reminiscences of a bygone age, All in the Mind also deals with the dilemmas posed by new developments in a society whose culture is geared to the idea that the natural span of a human life is three-score years and ten.


All in the Mind

"I've been to see Dr Horton." Tilly came over to sit on Johnny's bed. "He says recovery from a stroke depends on how much you believe you can do it."


Johnny smiled his new, lop-sided smile. "He told me that as well."


Tilly put her hands on her hips. "Well?"


"Are you going to get down to it and start trying? Or are you just going to lie in bed feeling sorry for yourself?"


Johnny started to laugh. "You don't give a chap much time to enjoy just having you around again, do you? All right, what do you want me to do?"


"Dr Horton said you need to do more physiotherapy. He says that you can come home as soon as you can walk with a stick."


Johnny raised his eyebrows. "Come home? He said that? He never said that before."


"You didn't have anyone to look after you before. Now, listen. This is what we're going to do."


And she outlined a plan of exercise far more rigorous than anything the physiotherapist had prescribed. 


Chapter 21