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

"Who? Kim?" Johnny thought about it. "Besides being Indian, you mean?"


"Well, I think being Indian may be part of it. So polite. And his beautiful English public school accent." She smiled, thinking of how Ravi would come out with expressions like 'what a spiffing wheeze', which were old-fashioned even in those days. "But it's not just that. It's his sheer enthusiasm. He gets carried away at the slightest thing. You should have seen his face when I showed him the television."


She sighed. "I wonder whatever became of Ravi."


"None of that, now." Johnny sat forward and patted her with his good hand. "Only happy thoughts. Now, let's get down to this list of Kim's."


Kim had asked them to make a list of everything they needed in the way of supplies to re-create their everyday life at the cottage when they had first lived there. 


Chapter 25