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

Tilly couldn't imagine what the problem was. She was young and healthy. She had plenty of good, nutritious food. She was happy. Why couldn't she conceive a child? She thought about talking it over with Dr Pollock, but she knew what he would say. He would say the same thing she herself said to anxious would-be mothers. "Just give it time. These things sometimes don't happen straight away." 


And he would advise her to maybe have a glass of gin before they went to bed, in order to relax. Tilly smiled to herself. She didn't think that was the problem. She had never been nervous with Johnny. And there was no question of them 'not doing it properly,' which had turned out to be the reason for one of her patients' inability to conceive.


 She remembered the look of incredulous horror on the poor woman's face when she had explained exactly what the process was.


"Poor Mrs Higgins, when I told her they were doing it wrong." 


Chapter 38