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

Athena forced herself to walk forward. Her legs felt like jelly and it took all her strength to cross the small space between the trees and the shuttle. Behind her she heard the Titans gasp and then they were gone, their thoughts diminishing in the distance.


"What in the name of God do you think you are doing?" Zeus looked his daughter up and down. She was still holding her weapon in her right hand, dangling at her side. Zeus moved his curled fingers in a gesture indicating that she hand it over. Not looking at him, she passed him the gun. "This is set on kill!" He shouted. "Kill! Are you mad? What is the matter with you? What the hell did you think you were doing? I send you to collect a few harmless samples and you get yourself involved in a bloody WAR!! Are you out of your mind? Why didn't you just come back with Aphrodite? Why can you NEVER do as you are told?"


Chapter 23