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.

A novel based on the von Däniken theory that the gods were spacemen. 
Set in the prehistoric Mesolithic age with the goddess Athena as a young girl and Prometheus, a young cave-dweller, as the main protagonists.
The boy watched the star fall. It fell very slowly, and it was not one light but a multitude of lights spinning lazily through the night sky. Then great silver fish flew through the sky and other mysterious lights began to appear on the mountain. At last a great thunderbolt struck the ocean. The sound was flat and hollow and unbelievably loud, as if a giant had stamped on the earth. And the sign of the Goddess appeared in the sky – the sign of the Sacred Mushroom. These are the events that mark the arrival of the Atlantis, the doomed starship, bringing new gods who would change the life of the boy and his people forever. 


The Owl Goddess

Despite being exhausted, Athena couldn't sleep. She was worried about Prometheus and the Tribe - whether they could survive after losing so many of their young men - whether Atlas, despite her father's precautions, would find his way back. And she was worried about having to move in with Hera. The house was finished now. She had no real excuse for staying in the tent. Nobody had said anything yet but it was just a matter of time. And then there was her father. He was also worried about something, really worried. It had something to do with the crew and getting them back Home. Perhaps he thought they weren't capable of building another ship after all or that nobody would ever come from Home to rescue them. Or did he think something had happened at Home? None of these explanations seemed quite right. She just had a strong feeling he didn't believe they would ever get back. Her mind nibbled at all these worries, like a rat caught in a trap, going round and round, never letting go. 


Chapter 24