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

The following day Kim pulled up outside Keeper's Cottage. Just to be on the safe side, he was wearing his 1940s clothes. He got out of the car and leant back in to pick up his briefcase, then closed the door and started up the garden path.


A man came round the side of the house pushing a wheelbarrow. He was wearing wellington boots and green gardening gloves. Kim's heart sank. Johnny couldn't have been doing that well, then, if he had to employ a gardener. 


Part of him was angry that they had broken the rules and had outside contact, but he could hardly blame them when they had been left entirely on their own resources all this time.


He opened the gate and started walking up the path 


"Kim!" The man had dropped the handles of the wheelbarrow and was coming towards him in a loping stride. "My dear chap. How marvellous to see you. We were beginning to think you'd disappeared for good."


Chapter 48